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# knewest

verb, old form used with thou (past)

«knewest» 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

«knewest» means «you knew», a form of «know»: To know something is to have it in your mind as a fact, because you learned it or were told. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/knewest/#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 knewest» = «you knew».

### Note

Today: you knew.

## On Mova

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