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# askest

«askest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you ask** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you ask

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«askest» means «you ask», a form of «ask»: To ask is to say a question so that you get an answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/askest/#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 askest» = «you ask».

### examples

- "Thou askest me of what race, of what family I am," says the fair maiden of a song preserved in the Tambof Government-- (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/askest/#x1)
- ‘What thou askest that shalt thou receive,’ said Arthur, ‘as far as the wind dries and the rain moistens, and the sun revolves and the sea encircles and the earth extends. (The Lilac Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/askest/#x2)

### tests

ending -est (stem «ask», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 0, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And the angel of the LORD said unto him: 'Wherefore askest thou after my name, seeing it is hidden?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.415/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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