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# droppest

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you drop

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«droppest» means «you drop», a form of «drop»: To drop is to let something fall from your hand; what you drop is lost to you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/droppest/#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 droppest» = «you drop».

### examples

- "My lord King!" says the Queen, "tell me wherefore thou droppest bitter tears?" (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/droppest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «drop», a verb of EWT); 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 «droppest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/droppest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.