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# wishest

verb, old form used with thou

«wishest» 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

«wishest» means «you wish», a form of «wish»: To wish means to want something to happen, even if it may not. A wish is that hope. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wishest/#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 wishest» = «you wish».

### Examples

- "That beast which thou wishest to overcome is my brother. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wishest/#x1)
- ‘That beast which thou wishest to overcome is my brother. (The Red Fairy Book) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wishest/#x2)
- "Thou wishest thou couldest go to the ball, is it not so?" (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wishest/#x3)

### Note

Today: you wish.

## On Mova

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