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# didst

«didst» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **did** — 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

did

### part of speech

verb, past tense of do, with thou

### meaning for a pupil

Did something, with "thou" as the subject. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/didst/#m1)

### how it differs from today

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

### examples

- And He said: 'Nay; but thou didst laugh.' (Torah GEN.18.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/didst/#x1)
- On Wednesday surely thou didst call. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/didst/#x2)
- Of the Rock that begot thee thou wast unmindful, and didst forget God that bore thee. (Torah DEU.32.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/didst/#x3)

### tests

manual 5; corpora 107 (Torah 44, tales 63, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 12.1 (Torah alone 102.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And He said: 'Nay; but thou didst laugh.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.457/)
- [I am the God of Beth-el, where thou didst anoint a pillar, where thou didst vow a vow unto Me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.946/)
- [and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.965/)
- [Thou didst blow with Thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank as lead in the mighty waters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.426/)
- [And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Spoke I not also to thy messengers that thou didst send unto me, saying:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.879/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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