接在thou之後的動詞用法

Question

在英文詩中常見的thou之後的動詞都有特殊的形式
但是我在字典裡都找不到變化的規則
像walk用在thou之後要變成walkest
那rest呢?
希望各位能提供一個大致的規則給小弟阿

Answer 1

當動詞以e結尾的時候﹐在字尾+st﹐例如﹕
to drive: thou drivest, thou drovest
to make: thou makest, thou madest
to love: thou lovest, thou loved(e)st
to give: thou givest, thou gavest
to come: thou comest, thou camest
to see: thou seest, thou sawest
括弧中的e可加可不加

當動詞以其他字母結尾的時候﹐在字尾+est﹐ 例如﹕
to know: thou knowest, thou knew(e)st
to go: thou goest
to eat: thou eatest
may: thou mayest
to say: thou sayest, thou saidest
to fear: thou fearest, thou fearedest
to stand: thou standese, thou stoodest

有些不按規則變化者如下﹕
to be: thou art, thou wast (or thou wert)
to have: thou hast, thou hadst
to do: thou dost (or thou doest) , thou didst
shall: thou shalt, thou shouldest
will: thou wilt, wouldest
can: thou canst, thou couldest

所以rest應該用﹕restest