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# eatest

«eatest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you eat** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you eat

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«eatest» means «you eat», a form of «eat»: To eat is to put food in your mouth, chew it and swallow it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/eatest/#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 eatest» = «you eat».

### examples

- but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.' (Torah GEN.2.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/eatest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «eat», a verb of EWT); corpora 3 (Torah 1, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [When thou eatest the labour of thy hands, happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2404/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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