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# seekest

«seekest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you seek** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you seek

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«seekest» means «you seek», a form of «seek»: To seek means to look for something or someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/seekest/#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 seekest» = «you seek».

### examples

- And the man asked him, saying: 'What seekest thou?' (Torah GEN.37.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/seekest/#x1)
- ‘Is it thou that seekest my daughter?’ (The Lilac Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/seekest/#x2)
- Said Yspathaden Penkawr, "Is it thou that seekest my daughter?" (Celtic Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/seekest/#x3)

### tests

ending -est (stem «seek», a verb of EWT); corpora 4 (Torah 1, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.5 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And the man asked him, saying: 'What seekest thou?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1192/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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