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# liketh

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

likes

### part of speech

verb, old form of «likes» (he, she, it)

### meaning for a pupil

«liketh» means «likes», a form of «like»: To like something is to enjoy it or think it is good. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/liketh/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -eth was the ending for he, she and it, where today we say -s: «he liketh» = «he likes».

### examples

- he shall dwell with thee, in the midst of thee, in the place which he shall choose within one of thy gates, where it liketh him best; thou shalt not wrong him. (Torah DEU.23.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/liketh/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «like», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

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