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# gavest

verb, old form used with thou (past)

«gavest» 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

«gavest» means «you gave», a form of «give»: To give is to let someone have something of yours: give a present. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/gavest/#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 gavest» = «you gave».

### Examples

- And the man said: 'The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.' (Torah GEN.3.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/gavest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you gave.

## On Mova

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