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What's up with all the words ending with "-eth" in the Bible? [duplicate]
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What happened to the “-est” and “-eth” verb suffixes in English? How were they once used?
With all this rapture thing going on now, I noticed that ...
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How did you know when to say "thing haveth or something"? [duplicate]
I have been watching Hocus Pocus and wondered how people in the 1800s knew when to add eth on the end of words.
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when did things like "thou canst" go? [duplicate]
I'm reading Kim and there are many lines like "Canst thou?".
Seems this is a conjugation of verbs on the 2nd person pronoun.
Nowadays seems English only has conjugation on the 3rd person pronoun. ...
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Is the expression "What hath alienators wrought" correct, concordance-wise? [duplicate]
I have seen the phrase "What hath alienators wrought" in the name of an article. Searching throught the web I learned that "hath" is the version of "has" in old English, but in the singular case (...
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How the English verb conjugation does not have different suffixes? [duplicate]
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What happened to the “-est” and “-eth” verb suffixes in English? How were they once used?
How do you conjugate Early Modern English verbs (other than ...
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How do you conjugate Early Modern English verbs (other than present tense)?
I was wondering how one might conjugate verbs in early modern English in various tenses. I am aware of the fact that for second person and third person singular specifically, the verb endings are -est ...
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"Geteth the tax"?
I was driving today, and I saw this billboard:
The tax man cometh. Geteth the health insurance.
Is this spelling correct? I'm not used to -eth, so I am not sure. Should it be "getteth"?
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Why is the Elizabethan English incorrect in this quote?
I saw a Geico commercial with Elizabethan verb forms that bothered me because they were being misused:
Trick Number 1. Lookest over there!
Servant looks
Haha! Madest thou look!
So endest the ...
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Why did the old pronouns and their respective endings vanish from daily usage?
If I’m not wrong, the verb conjugation in the past used to be:
I have we have
thou hast ye have
he/she/it hath they have
This conjugation is closer to its equivalent in the ...
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How many syllables were in 3ps endings with -th
When reading the King James Version of the Bible, we often hear, e.g., "maketh" pronounced in two syllables. Is this an accurate reflection of the pronunciation of that word when it was commonly used?
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