knewest
verb, old form used with thou (past)
Early Modern English
Meaning
«knewest» means «you knew», a form of «know»: To know something is to have it in your mind as a fact, because you learned it or were told. 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 knewest» = «you knew».
Note
Today: you knew.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «knewest» in the Early Modern English dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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