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# remainest

verb, old form used with thou

«remainest» 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

«remainest» means «you remain», a form of «remain»: To remain is to stay or still be there after other things have gone or been used: two cakes remain. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/remainest/#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 remainest» = «you remain».

### Examples

- ‘Greeting to thee also,’ answered Arthur. ‘Sit thou between two of my warriors, and thou shalt have minstrels before thee and all that belongs to one born to be a king, while thou remainest in my palace.’ (The Lilac Fairy Book) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/remainest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you remain.

## On Mova

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