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# lettest

«lettest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you let** — 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 let

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«lettest» means «you let», a form of «let»: To allow someone to do something: "Mum let me stay up." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/lettest/#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 lettest» = «you let».

### examples

- And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty; (Torah DEU.15.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/lettest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «let», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 2, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.444/)
- [That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.380/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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