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# sayst

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you say

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

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

### examples

- And did it come true, sayst thou? (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sayst/#x1)

### tests

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