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# sawest

«sawest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you saw** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you saw

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou (past)

### meaning for a pupil

«sawest» means «you saw», a form of «see»: To see is to notice something with your eyes: I see a bird. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sawest/#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 sawest» = «you saw».

### examples

- And Abimelech said unto Abraham: 'What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?' (Torah GEN.20.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sawest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «saw», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 1, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And Abimelech said unto Abraham: 'What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.532/)
- [When thou sawest a thief, thou hadst company with him, and with adulterers was thy portion.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.835/)
- [Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.54/)
- [The ram which thou sawest having the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.257/)
- [And Thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red Sea;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.250/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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