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# couldest

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

could

### part of speech

verb, past tense of can, with thou

### meaning for a pupil

Was able to, with "thou" as the subject. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/couldest/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "could" with "you."

### examples

- "Thou wishest thou couldest go to the ball, is it not so?" (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/couldest/#x1)

### tests

manual 5; 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 «couldest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/couldest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.