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# lovest

verb, old form used with thou

«lovest» 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

«lovest» means «you love», a form of «love»: To care very deeply about someone, like family or close friends. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/lovest/#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 lovest» = «you love».

### Note

Today: you love.

## On Mova

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