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# reachest

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you reach

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«reachest» means «you reach», a form of «reach»: To reach is to get to a place: the train reached the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/reachest/#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 reachest» = «you reach».

### examples

- ‘“Take that path,” said he, “that leads to the head of this grassy glade, and go up the wood till thou reachest the top. (The Lilac Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/reachest/#x1)
- But to-night thou must sleep in the this castle, and in the morning see that thou rise early and follow the road upwards through the valley, until thou reachest a wood. (The Lilac Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/reachest/#x2)

### tests

ending -est (stem «reach», 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 «reachest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/reachest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.