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Did
DID
, pret of do, contracted from doed. I did, thou didst, he did; we did, you or ye did, they did.Have ye not read what David did when he was hungry? Matthew 12.
The proper signification is, made, executed, performed; but it is used also to express the state of health.
And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the womens house, to know how Esther did. Esther 2.
Did is used as the sign of the past tense of verbs, particularly in interrogative and negative sentences; as, did he command you to go? He did not command me. It is also used to express emphasis; as, I did love him beyond measure.
Definition 2024
Did
did
did
Translingual
Alternative forms
- (roman numeral): DID, CMXCIX, cmxcix
Number
did
- (informal) A Roman numeral representing nine hundred and ninety-nine (999).
See also
- Previous: diid (nine hundred and ninety-eight, 998)
- Next: dd (one thousand, 1000)
English
Verb
did
- simple past tense of do
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
- she with liquors strong his eyes did steepe, / That nothing should him hastily awake [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:
- The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display, / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:
- He made him stoup perforce vnto his knee, / And do vnwilling worship to the Saint, / That on his shield depainted he did see [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
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Anagrams
Molise Croatian
Etymology
From Serbo-Croatian did.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dîd/
Noun
did m
Declension
declension of did
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | did | dida |
| genitive | dida | didi, did |
| dative | didu | didi, didami |
| accusative | did, dida | dida |
| locative | didu | dida |
| instrumental | didom, didam | didi, didami |
References
- Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).
Novial
Etymology
From English.
Verb
did
- (auxiliary) added to the front of a verb, it causes that verb to be in the past tense
Usage notes
- An equivalent effect can be obtained by adding the ending -d to the verb.
Old Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *dīyos (“day”) (compare Old Irish día), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws, *dyew-.
Noun
did m
Descendants
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dîd/
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *dědъ.
Noun
dȉd m