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# turnest

«turnest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you turn** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you turn

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«turnest» means «you turn», a form of «turn»: To turn means to move around a centre: the wheel turns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/turnest/#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 turnest» = «you turn».

### examples

- If thou turnest to flee, he will overtake thee. (The Lilac Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/turnest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «turn», 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

### In the corpora

- [Yea, Thou turnest back the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1605/)
- [Thou turnest man to contrition; and sayest: 'Return, ye children of men.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1620/)
- [What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? thou Jordan, that thou turnest backward?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2087/)
- [That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.380/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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