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# knockest

verb, old form used with thou

«knockest» 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

«knockest» means «you knock», a form of «knock»: To hit a door or window with your knuckles so people inside hear you. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/knockest/#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 knockest» = «you knock».

### Note

Today: you knock.

## On Mova

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