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# mightst

«mightst» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **might (with you)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

might (with you)

### part of speech

verb, past tense of might, used with thou (second person singular)

### meaning for a pupil

Had the power to do something; were able to. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/mightst/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "you might"; the -st ending belonged to thou.

### examples

- So thou wast made poor and a vagabond on the face of the earth that thou mightst pick up wisdom, if but a little. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/mightst/#x1)

### primary record

might

### tests

manual 5; 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 «mightst» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/mightst/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.