did

See also: Did, DID, did-, and -did

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪd/

• Audio (CA)

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

Verb

did

1. simple past tense of do
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto VI, page 254:

     Then ſhe with liquors ſtrong his eies did ſteepe, / That nothing ſhould him haſtily awake […]

2. (nonstandard, especially Southern US, African-American Vernacular) past participle of do
   • 2008 March 1, Jody Miller, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence‎^[1], NYU Press, →ISBN, page 140:

     […] But I don't care, I mean I don't even care. She shouldn't have did that."

   • 2010 October 10, Jeanette R Davidson, quoting Bea Jenkins, African American Studies‎^[2], Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 189:

     We have to take this brutality. We haven't did anything. Why?

   • 2014 May 6, Taylor Anderson, Deadly Shores‎^[3], Penguin, →ISBN, page 288:

     “Spanky—I mean, the exec, Mr. McFaarlane, say the number four gun has did for another cruiser, but they all gonna drown, aft, as much water as the screws is throwin' up!"

Anagrams

• DDI, ddI, idd

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Danish

Adverb

did

1. (archaic) thither, to there, towards that place

Synonyms

• dertil

Coordinate terms

• hid, der

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Novial

Etymology

From English.

Verb

did

1. (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.

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Old Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dīyos (“day”) (compare Old Irish día), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws, *dyew-.

Noun

did m

1. day

Descendants

• Middle Welsh: dyð
  • Welsh: dydd

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• djȅd (Ijekavian)
• dȅda, dȅd (Ekavian)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dědъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dîd/

Noun

dȉd m (Cyrillic spelling ди̏д)

1. (Ikavian) grandfather

Declension

Declension of did

	singular	plural
nominative	dȉd	dìdovi/didi
genitive	dida	didova/dida
dative	didu	didovima/didima
accusative	dida	didove/dide
vocative	dide	didovi/didi
locative	didu	didovima/didima
instrumental	didom	didovima/didima

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Slavomolisano

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian did.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dîd/

Noun

did m

1. grandfather

Declension

    declension of did (anim series-1b masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	did	dida
genitive	dida	did, didi
dative	didu	didami, didi
accusative	did, dida	dida
locative	didu	dida
instrumental	didom, didam	didami, didi

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).