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# buildest

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you build

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«buildest» means «you build», a form of «build»: To build is to make something by putting parts together, like a house, a tower or a model. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/buildest/#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 buildest» = «you build».

### examples

- When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence. (Torah DEU.22.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/buildest/#x1)

### tests

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