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# wanteth

«wanteth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **wants** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

wants

### part of speech

verb, old form of «wants» (he, she, it)

### meaning for a pupil

«wanteth» means «wants», a form of «want»: To want means to wish to have or do something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wanteth/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -eth was the ending for he, she and it, where today we say -s: «he wanteth» = «he wants».

### examples

- but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth. (Torah DEU.15.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wanteth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «want», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.439/)
- [In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; but he that refraineth his lips is wise.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.277/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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