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# comest

«comest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you come** — 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

you come

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«comest» means «you come», a form of «come»: To come is to move towards here, to the person speaking: Come here! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/comest/#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 comest» = «you come».

### examples

- Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. (Torah DEU.28.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/comest/#x1)
- "Whence comest thou, maiden?" said Connla. (Celtic Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/comest/#x2)
- Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. (Torah DEU.28.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/comest/#x3)

### tests

ending -est (stem «come», a verb of EWT); corpora 20 (Torah 6, tales 14, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.3 (Torah alone 14.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.743/)
- [Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.756/)
- [And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah: 'What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.540/)
- [And the elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said: 'Comest thou peaceably?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.426/)
- [And she said: 'Comest thou peaceably?' And he said: 'Peaceably.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.71/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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