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# seekest

verb, old form used with thou

«seekest» 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

«seekest» means «you seek», a form of «seek»: To seek means to look for something or someone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/seekest/#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 seekest» = «you seek».

### Examples

- And the man asked him, saying: 'What seekest thou?' (Torah GEN.37.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/seekest/#x1)
- ‘Is it thou that seekest my daughter?’ (The Lilac Fairy Book) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/seekest/#x2)
- Said Yspathaden Penkawr, "Is it thou that seekest my daughter?" (Celtic Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/seekest/#x3)

### Note

Today: you seek.

## On Mova

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