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# givest

verb, old form used with thou

«givest» 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

«givest» means «you give», 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/givest/#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 givest» = «you give».

### Examples

- Thou givest nothing, and thou hearest nothing"--and, leaping from his seat, he took up a club and began beating the sack till he had knocked a hole in the wall, and beaten the sack to bits. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/givest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you give.

## On Mova

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