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# requirest

verb, old form used with thou

«requirest» 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

«requirest» means «you require», a form of «require»: To require is to need. A cake requires eggs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/requirest/#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 requirest» = «you require».

### Examples

- Glivi stood on the summit of his castle, and said, "Arthur, what requirest thou of me, since nothing remains to me in this fortress, and I have neither joy nor pleasure in it; neither wheat nor oats?" (Celtic Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/requirest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you require.

## On Mova

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