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# thankest

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you thank

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«thankest» means «you thank», a form of «thank»: To tell someone you are grateful for something they did or gave: "Thank you!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thankest/#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 thankest» = «you thank».

### examples

- "Stop," says he, quick as lightning, "I'll help thee and welcome, but if ever thou sayest that to me--if ever thou thankest me, see'st thou, thou 'lt never see me more. (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thankest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «thank», 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 «thankest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thankest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.