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# gettest

verb, old form used with thou

«gettest» 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

«gettest» means «you get», a form of «get»: To get is to receive or be given: get a present. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/gettest/#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 gettest» = «you get».

### Examples

- Take it home, and when thou gettest there, make to thyself a cattle-pen, and make it strong; then break the egg in the middle of thy cattle-pen, and thou shalt see something. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/gettest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you get.

## On Mova

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