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# wast

«wast» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **were (with you)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

were (with you)

### part of speech

verb, past tense of be, with thou (second person singular)

### meaning for a pupil

You were; a form of "be" used with "thou". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wast/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "you were".

### examples

- And He said: 'Who told thee that thou wast naked? (Torah GEN.3.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wast/#x1)
- I did not know that thou wast anything more than a herdsboy. (The Jungle Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wast/#x2)
- Of the Rock that begot thee thou wast unmindful, and didst forget God that bore thee. (Torah DEU.32.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wast/#x3)

### tests

manual 5; corpora 19 (Torah 12, tales 7, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.2 (Torah alone 28.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And He said: 'Who told thee that thou wast naked?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.71/)
- [And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt; and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.467/)
- [And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.661/)
- [Of the Rock that begot thee thou wast unmindful, and didst forget God that bore thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.903/)
- [And David said unto him: 'How wast thou not afraid to put forth thy hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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