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# tastest

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you taste

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«tastest» means «you taste», a form of «taste»: The flavour of food or drink in your mouth: "a sweet taste". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/tastest/#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 tastest» = «you taste».

### examples

- Wherefore this shall befall thee on thy way home: thou shalt come upon an apple-tree covered with apples by the wayside, and straightway thou shalt long to eat of them, and the moment thou tastest thereof thou shalt burst. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/tastest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «taste», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 0, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

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