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# thinkest

verb, old form used with thou

«thinkest» 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

«thinkest» means «you think», a form of «think»: To think is to use your mind to work something out. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thinkest/#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 thinkest» = «you think».

### Examples

- And he said: 'Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? thinkest thou to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian?' And Moses feared, and said: 'Surely the thing is known.' (Torah EXO.2.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thinkest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you think.

## On Mova

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