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# sowest

verb, old form used with thou

«sowest» 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

«sowest» means «you sow», a form of «sow»: (verb, rhymes with go) To plant seeds in the ground. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sowest/#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 sowest» = «you sow».

### Examples

- and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours, which thou sowest in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labours out of the field. (Torah EXO.23.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sowest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you sow.

## On Mova

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