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# hearest

verb, old form used with thou

«hearest» 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

«hearest» means «you hear», a form of «hear»: To notice sounds with your ears: "I hear a bird." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hearest/#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 hearest» = «you hear».

### Examples

- And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it; and I have heard say of thee, that when thou hearest a dream thou canst interpret it.' (Torah GEN.41.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hearest/#x1)
- 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/H/hearest/#x2)

### Note

Today: you hear.

## On Mova

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