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# stumblest

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you stumble

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«stumblest» means «you stumble», a form of «stumble»: To stumble is to trip and almost fall when walking or running. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stumblest/#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 stumblest» = «you stumble».

### examples

- "Why stumblest thou? scentest thou any ill?" (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stumblest/#x1)
- "Why stumblest thou, sorry jade? scentest thou some ill?" (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stumblest/#x2)

### tests

ending -est (stem «stumble», a verb of EWT); corpora 6 (Torah 0, tales 6, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.7 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

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