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# knockest

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you knock

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«knockest» means «you knock», a form of «knock»: To hit a door or window with your knuckles so people inside hear you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/knockest/#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 knockest» = «you knock».

### tests

ending -est (stem «knock», 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 «knockest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/knockest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.