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# hangest

verb, old form used with thou

«hangest» 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

«hangest» means «you hang», a form of «hang»: To hang is to put something up so it is held from above, like a coat on a hook. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hangest/#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 hangest» = «you hang».

### Note

Today: you hang.

## On Mova

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