-st

Meaning

Verb suffix for the second-person singular.

Concepts

-est

most

Synonyms

meist

-t

am -sten

Pronounced as (IPA)

/st/

Etymology

From Middle High German -est, from older -es through rebracketing in inverted forms like sizzes du → sizzestu → sizzest du (“do you sit”). Further from a merger of various Old High German conjugation suffixes, from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European.