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# stumblest

verb, old form used with thou

«stumblest» 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

«stumblest» means «you stumble», a form of «stumble»: To stumble is to trip and almost fall when walking or running. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stumblest/#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 stumblest» = «you stumble».

### Examples

- "Why stumblest thou? scentest thou any ill?" (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stumblest/#x1)
- "Why stumblest thou, sorry jade? scentest thou some ill?" (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stumblest/#x2)

### Note

Today: you stumble.

## On Mova

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