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# ail

«ail» in Mova's school dictionary: **to be the matter with someone, to be wrong with them…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (ail, ails, ailed, ailing); old use

### meaning for a pupil

1) To ail is to be the matter with someone, to be wrong with them; «What ails you?» asks what is wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ail/#m1)

2) To ail is to trouble or make someone unwell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ail/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, the question «What ails you?» asks what is wrong with someone who looks sad or sick

### examples

- What ails you, little dog? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ail/#x1)
- The innkeeper asked him in some concern what ailed him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ail/#x2)
- Something ails the old well, and the water tastes bad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ail/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah: 'What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.540/)
- [What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.442/)
- [What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? thou Jordan, that thou turnest backward?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2087/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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