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# bade

«bade» in Mova's school dictionary: **told or ordered someone to do something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (past of «bid»; bid, bade, bidden)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Bade means told or ordered someone to do something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bade/#m1)

2) Bade also means said goodbye: bade them farewell. This is an old use, found in fairy tales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bade/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a fairy or a king gives a command to a person.

### examples

- But the Fairy bade her take courage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bade/#x1)
- Then they bade each other farewell and separated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bade/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths; it says what was asked, not how many.

### In the corpora

- [And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1417/)
- [And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him; he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.274/)
- [And she went down unto the threshing-floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law bade her.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/RUT.56/)
- [Then Esther bade them return answer unto Mordecai:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.77/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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