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# sawest

verb, old form used with thou (past)

«sawest» 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

«sawest» means «you saw», a form of «see»: To see is to notice something with your eyes: I see a bird. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sawest/#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 sawest» = «you saw».

### Examples

- And Abimelech said unto Abraham: 'What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?' (Torah GEN.20.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sawest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you saw.

## On Mova

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