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# leavest

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you leave

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«leavest» means «you leave», a form of «leave»: To leave is to go away from a place: leave the room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/leavest/#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 leavest» = «you leave».

### examples

- ‘If thou leavest them,’ said the hoodie, ‘we will steal them.’ (The Lilac Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/leavest/#x1)
- ‘If thou leavest them, we will steal them,’ said a hoodie who was perched on a stone above him, and the giant answered: (The Lilac Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/leavest/#x2)

### tests

ending -est (stem «leave», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 0, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

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