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# performest

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you perform

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«performest» means «you perform», a form of «perform»: To perform is to act, sing, dance or play music for an audience. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/performest/#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 performest» = «you perform».

### examples

- "Who art thou?" he asked, "whose outward appearance is that of an animal, while thou willingly performest acts of mercy?" (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/performest/#x1)

### tests

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