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# wishest

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you wish

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«wishest» means «you wish», a form of «wish»: To wish means to want something to happen, even if it may not. A wish is that hope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wishest/#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 wishest» = «you wish».

### examples

- "That beast which thou wishest to overcome is my brother. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wishest/#x1)
- ‘That beast which thou wishest to overcome is my brother. (The Red Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wishest/#x2)
- "Thou wishest thou couldest go to the ball, is it not so?" (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wishest/#x3)

### tests

ending -est (stem «wish», a verb of EWT); corpora 5 (Torah 0, tales 5, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

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