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# wantest

verb, old form used with thou

«wantest» 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

«wantest» means «you want», a form of «want»: To want means to wish to have or do something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wantest/#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 wantest» = «you want».

### Examples

- And whenever thou wantest a meal say, 'Sack, sack, give me to eat and drink!' and immediately thou shalt have thy fill both of meat and drink, so now thou wilt have wherewithal to comfort thy wife and children." (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wantest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you want.

## On Mova

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