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# saidst

«saidst» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you said** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you said

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou (past)

### meaning for a pupil

«saidst» means «you said», a form of «say»: To say is to speak words: «Say hello.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/saidst/#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 saidst» = «you said».

### examples

- And thou saidst unto thy servants: Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. (Torah GEN.44.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/saidst/#x1)
- And thou saidst unto thy servants: Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more. (Torah GEN.44.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/saidst/#x2)
- And Thou saidst: I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.' (Torah GEN.32.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/saidst/#x3)

### tests

ending -st (stem «said», a verb of EWT); corpora 8 (Torah 7, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.9 (Torah alone 16.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And thou saidst unto thy servants: Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1460/)
- [And thou saidst unto thy servants: Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1462/)
- [Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon Thee; Thou saidst: 'Fear not.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.110/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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