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# reachest

verb, old form used with thou

«reachest» 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

«reachest» means «you reach», a form of «reach»: To reach is to get to a place: the train reached the city. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/reachest/#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 reachest» = «you reach».

### Examples

- ‘“Take that path,” said he, “that leads to the head of this grassy glade, and go up the wood till thou reachest the top. (The Lilac Fairy Book) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/reachest/#x1)
- But to-night thou must sleep in the this castle, and in the morning see that thou rise early and follow the road upwards through the valley, until thou reachest a wood. (The Lilac Fairy Book) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/reachest/#x2)

### Note

Today: you reach.

## On Mova

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