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# needst

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you need

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«needst» means «you need», a form of «need»: To need something is to have to have it, because you cannot do well without it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/needst/#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 needst» = «you need».

### examples

- Leave one little sheaf behind; more than that thou needst not leave, but that thou must leave. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/needst/#x1)
- "She is thine, but therefore needst thou not thank me, but Arthur who hath accomplished this for thee. (Celtic Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/needst/#x2)

### tests

ending -st (stem «need», a verb of EWT); 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 «needst» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/needst/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.