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# mayest

«mayest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **may** — 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

may

### part of speech

auxiliary verb

### meaning for a pupil

May; be allowed to; might. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/mayest/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used in ordinary speech; today we say "may" or "might" with "you". "Mayest" is the old form used with "thou".

### examples

- And she said: 'What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?' (Torah GEN.38.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/mayest/#x1)
- “And that thou mayest be cast out of another pack. (The Jungle Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/mayest/#x2)
- And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; (Torah GEN.2.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/mayest/#x3)

### primary record

may

### tests

manual 5; corpora 66 (Torah 50, tales 16, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 7.5 (Torah alone 116.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.50/)
- [And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a congregation of peoples;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.828/)
- [And she said: 'What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1233/)
- [Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it; but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.434/)
- [Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover-offering within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.460/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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