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# approacheth

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

approaches

### part of speech

verb, old form of «approaches» (he, she, it)

### meaning for a pupil

«approacheth» means «approaches», a form of «approach»: To approach means to come nearer to someone or something («The train is approaching the platform»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/approacheth/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -eth was the ending for he, she and it, where today we say -s: «he approacheth» = «he approaches».

### tests

ending -eth (stem «approach», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

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