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# eatest

verb, old form used with thou

«eatest» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

«eatest» means «you eat», a form of «eat»: To eat is to put food in your mouth, chew it and swallow it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/eatest/#m1)

### Then and now

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou eatest» = «you eat».

### Examples

- but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.' (Torah GEN.2.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/eatest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you eat.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «eatest» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/eatest/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«eatest» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/eatest.html) on Mova free.