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# makest

verb, old form used with thou

«makest» 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

«makest» means «you make», a form of «make»: To make is to build, cook or create something: make a cake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/makest/#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 makest» = «you make».

### Examples

- And every day shalt thou offer the bullock of sin-offering, beside the other offerings of atonement; and thou shalt do the purification upon the altar when thou makest atonement for it; and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it. (Torah EXO.29.36, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/makest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you make.

## On Mova

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