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# tastest

verb, old form used with thou

«tastest» 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

«tastest» means «you taste», a form of «taste»: The flavour of food or drink in your mouth: "a sweet taste". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/tastest/#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 tastest» = «you taste».

### Examples

- Wherefore this shall befall thee on thy way home: thou shalt come upon an apple-tree covered with apples by the wayside, and straightway thou shalt long to eat of them, and the moment thou tastest thereof thou shalt burst. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/tastest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you taste.

## On Mova

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