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# makest

«makest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you make** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you make

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«makest» means «you make», a form of «make»: To make is to build, cook or create something: make a cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/makest/#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 makest» = «you make».

### examples

- And every day shalt thou offer the bullock of sin-offering, beside the other offerings of atonement; and thou shalt do the purification upon the altar when thou makest atonement for it; and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it. (Torah EXO.29.36, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/makest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «make», 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

### In the corpora

- [The way of the just is straight; Thou, Most Upright, makest plain the path of the just.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.529/)
- [And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HAB.17/)
- [In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; for Thou, LORD, makest me dwell alone in safety.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.39/)
- [For Thou makest him most blessed for ever; Thou makest him glad with joy in Thy presence.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.299/)
- [They are abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy house; and Thou makest them drink of the river of Thy pleasures.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.568/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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