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# carriest

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you carry

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«carriest» means «you carry», a form of «carry»: To carry is to hold something and take it with you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/carriest/#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 carriest» = «you carry».

### examples

- When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou carriest them away captive, (Torah DEU.21.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/carriest/#x1)

### tests

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