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# needest

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

need (with you)

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

Have to; must do or have something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/needest/#m1)

### how it differs from today

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

### examples

- And if thou dost not find trouble in that adventure, thou needest not to seek it during the rest of thy life.” (The Lilac Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/needest/#x1)

### primary record

need

### tests

manual 5; corpora 1 (Torah 0, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

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