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# shouldst

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

### 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/shouldst/#m1)

### how it differs from today

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

### examples

- What have I done that thou shouldst turn away? (Indian Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shouldst/#x1)
- "Perish!" cried he, "for 'tis but just that such a wretch as thou shouldst perish!" (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shouldst/#x2)
- ‘It is a wonder that such a man as thou shouldst be without a companion.’ (The Lilac Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shouldst/#x3)

### tests

manual 5; corpora 14 (Torah 0, tales 14, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.6 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

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