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# owest

verb, old form used with thou

«owest» 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

«owest» means «you owe», a form of «owe»: To have to pay back money that someone lent you. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/O/owest/#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 owest» = «you owe».

### Examples

- I owe thee naught, and thou owest naught to me; so sit on my back again, and I'll take thee to my master." (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/O/owest/#x1)
- “Of that we shall judge later,” said Bagheera, in a dry voice that Mowgli did not at all like. “But here is Kaa to whom we owe the battle and thou owest thy life. (The Jungle Book) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/O/owest/#x2)

### Note

Today: you owe.

## On Mova

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