hearest
verb, old form used with thou
Early Modern English
Meaning
«hearest» means «you hear», a form of «hear»: To notice sounds with your ears: "I hear a bird." tree →
Then and now
Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou hearest» = «you hear».
Examples
- And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it; and I have heard say of thee, that when thou hearest a dream thou canst interpret it.' (Torah GEN.41.15, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thou givest nothing, and thou hearest nothing"--and, leaping from his seat, he took up a club and began beating the sack till he had knocked a hole in the wall, and beaten the sack to bits. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) tree →
Note
Today: you hear.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «hearest» in the Early Modern English dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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