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# leavest

verb, old form used with thou

«leavest» 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

«leavest» means «you leave», a form of «leave»: To leave is to go away from a place: leave the room. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/leavest/#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 leavest» = «you leave».

### Examples

- ‘If thou leavest them,’ said the hoodie, ‘we will steal them.’ (The Lilac Fairy Book) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/leavest/#x1)
- ‘If thou leavest them, we will steal them,’ said a hoodie who was perched on a stone above him, and the giant answered: (The Lilac Fairy Book) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/leavest/#x2)

### Note

Today: you leave.

## On Mova

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