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# shouldest

«shouldest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **should** — 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

should

### part of speech

auxiliary verb, form of should used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

You should or ought to; you would be expected to. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shouldest/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say you should. The sentences use the same sense as should.

### examples

- Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?' (Torah GEN.3.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shouldest/#x1)
- that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say: I have made Abram rich; (Torah GEN.14.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shouldest/#x2)
- And Laban said unto Jacob: 'Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?' (Torah GEN.29.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shouldest/#x3)

### tests

manual 5; corpora 11 (Torah 9, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.2 (Torah alone 21.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.72/)
- [Why shouldest thou be as a man overcome, as a mighty man that cannot save?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.410/)
- [If Thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2421/)
- [Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.799/)
- [What is man, that Thou shouldest magnify him, and that Thou shouldest set Thy heart upon him,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.167/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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