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# owest

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you owe

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«owest» means «you owe», a form of «owe»: To have to pay back money that someone lent you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/O/owest/#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 owest» = «you owe».

### examples

- I owe thee naught, and thou owest naught to me; so sit on my back again, and I'll take thee to my master." (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/O/owest/#x1)
- “Of that we shall judge later,” said Bagheera, in a dry voice that Mowgli did not at all like. “But here is Kaa to whom we owe the battle and thou owest thy life. (The Jungle Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/O/owest/#x2)

### tests

ending -est (stem «owe», a verb of EWT); corpora 3 (Torah 0, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

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