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# wouldst

«wouldst» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **would (with you)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

would (with you)

### part of speech

verb, past tense of will (with thou)

### meaning for a pupil

You would; a form of "will" used with "thou" in the past or in wishing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wouldst/#m1)

### how it differs from today

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

### examples

- Methought thou wouldst not let me go alive. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wouldst/#x1)
- And wouldst thou then read everything that is written? (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wouldst/#x2)
- Methought thou wouldst tear me in pieces with thy dogs. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wouldst/#x3)

### tests

manual 5; corpora 32 (Torah 0, tales 32, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 3.6 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

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