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# hearest

«hearest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you hear** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you hear

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«hearest» means «you hear», a form of «hear»: To notice sounds with your ears: "I hear a bird." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hearest/#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 hearest» = «you hear».

### examples

- And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it; and I have heard say of thee, that when thou hearest a dream thou canst interpret it.' (Torah GEN.41.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hearest/#x1)
- 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/H/hearest/#x2)

### tests

ending -est (stem «hear», a verb of EWT); corpora 4 (Torah 1, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.5 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [O Thou that hearest prayer, unto Thee doth all flesh come.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1045/)
- [Then said Boaz unto Ruth: 'Hearest thou not, my daughter?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/RUT.33/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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