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# thankest

verb, old form used with thou

«thankest» 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

«thankest» means «you thank», a form of «thank»: To tell someone you are grateful for something they did or gave: "Thank you!" [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thankest/#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 thankest» = «you thank».

### Examples

- "Stop," says he, quick as lightning, "I'll help thee and welcome, but if ever thou sayest that to me--if ever thou thankest me, see'st thou, thou 'lt never see me more. (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thankest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you thank.

## On Mova

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