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# writest

verb, old form used with thou

«writest» 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

«writest» means «you write», a form of «write»: To write means to put letters, words or numbers on paper or a screen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/writest/#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 writest» = «you write».

### Examples

- What writest thou on yonder smooth parchment, sealing it with thy seal, and intrusting it to the horsemen and servants, who ride away, far away, to the city of the Pope? (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/writest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you write.

## On Mova

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