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# requirest

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you require

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«requirest» means «you require», a form of «require»: To require is to need. A cake requires eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/requirest/#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 requirest» = «you require».

### examples

- Glivi stood on the summit of his castle, and said, "Arthur, what requirest thou of me, since nothing remains to me in this fortress, and I have neither joy nor pleasure in it; neither wheat nor oats?" (Celtic Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/requirest/#x1)

### tests

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