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# givest

«givest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you give** — 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 give

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«givest» means «you give», a form of «give»: To give is to let someone have something of yours: give a present. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/givest/#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 givest» = «you give».

### examples

- Thou givest nothing, and thou hearest nothing"--and, leaping from his seat, he took up a club and began beating the sack till he had knocked a hole in the wall, and beaten the sack to bits. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/givest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «give», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 1, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Thou givest it unto them, they gather it; Thou openest Thy hand, they are satisfied with good.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1852/)
- [Who givest salvation unto kings, who rescuest David Thy servant from the hurtful sword.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2608/)
- [The eyes of all wait for Thee, and Thou givest them their food in due season.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2630/)
- [He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.176/)
- [If thou be righteous, what givest thou Him?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.928/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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