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# wentest

verb, old form used with thou (past)

«wentest» 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

«wentest» means «you went», a form of «go»: To go is to move from one place to another: go to school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wentest/#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 wentest» = «you went».

### Examples

- Unstable as water, have not thou the excellency; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it — he went up to my couch. (Torah GEN.49.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wentest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you went.

## On Mova

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