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to dost

to dost

22 9.9
An old form of do used with thou in older English
  • verb
  • Archaic
: haces

Surface Forms

dost infinitive
doing present participle
dost third person singular
didst past
done past participle

Morphology

dost = do (semi-transparent) = do + st

Form is the verb 'do' with the archaic second-person singular ending '-st'; the meaning is directly related but the archaic inflection may be unfamiliar to many learners.

Etymology

Dost is an old form of the verb do used with the pronoun 'thou', so 'thou dost' simply means 'you do'.