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# wentest

«wentest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you went** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you went

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou (past)

### meaning for a pupil

«wentest» means «you went», a form of «go»: To go is to move from one place to another: go to school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wentest/#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 wentest» = «you went».

### examples

- Unstable as water, have not thou the excellency; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it — he went up to my couch. (Torah GEN.49.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wentest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «went», 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

- [And Absalom said to Hushai: 'Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.474/)
- [Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1239/)
- [O God, when Thou wentest forth before Thy people, when Thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1097/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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