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# standest

«standest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you stand** — 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 stand

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«standest» means «you stand», a form of «stand»: To stand is to be on your feet with your body upright. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/standest/#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 standest» = «you stand».

### examples

- And He said: 'Draw not nigh hither; put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.' (Torah EXO.3.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/standest/#x1)
- And he said: 'Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have cleared the house, and made room for the camels.' (Torah GEN.24.31, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/standest/#x2)

### tests

ending -est (stem «stand», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 2, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Why standest Thou afar off, O LORD?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.117/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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