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# becomest

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you become

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«becomest» means «you become», a form of «become»: To become is to start to be something. A seed becomes a plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/becomest/#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 becomest» = «you become».

### examples

- Poor child! thy friend's bridal chamber is a black coffin, and thou becomest an old maid. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/becomest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «become», 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 «becomest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/becomest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.