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# takest

«takest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you take** — 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 take

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«takest» means «you take», a form of «take»: To take is to get hold of something and move it or have it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/takest/#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 takest» = «you take».

### examples

- Step on board and let him conduct thee; but if thou wouldest behold thy kingdom again, see that thou takest not the name of Allah into thy mouth." (The Arabian Nights Entertainments) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/takest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «take», a verb of EWT); corpora 3 (Torah 2, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Thou wife that committest adultery, that takest strangers instead of thy husband —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.344/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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