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# canst

«canst» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **can** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

can

### part of speech

verb, second person singular of can (used with thou)

### meaning for a pupil

Are able to, used with thou. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/canst/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say can.

### examples

- And He said: 'Thou canst not see My face, for man shall not see Me and live.' (Torah EXO.33.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/canst/#x1)
- I cannot run as thou canst." (Grimm's Fairy Stories) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/canst/#x2)
- And who canst thou place before the only one? (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/canst/#x3)

### primary record

can

### tests

manual 5; corpora 78 (Torah 4, tales 71, Sefer Yetzirah 3); EWT 0; ratio 8.8 (Torah alone 9.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And He said: 'Thou canst not see My face, for man shall not see Me and live.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1003/)
- [And man boweth down, and man lowereth himself; and Thou canst not bear with them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.41/)
- [How canst thou say: 'I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim'?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.45/)
- ['If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.355/)
- [not to many peoples of an unintelligible speech and of a slow tongue, whose words thou canst not understand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.46/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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