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# actest

«actest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you act** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you act

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«actest» means «you act», a form of «act»: To act means to do something, to take action: act quickly in an emergency. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/actest/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou actest» = «you act».

### examples

- Thou actest like the great calm ocean, that beckons us, and fills us with expectation--and when we embark upon thee, we sink, disappear, and cease to be. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/actest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «act», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 0, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «actest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/actest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.