did

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "did"

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɪd/
  • Audio (CA)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪd

Verb

did

  1. simple past of do
  2. (nonstandard, especially Southern US, African-American Vernacular) past participle of do; done
    • 2008 March 1, Jody Miller, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence‎, 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, 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, 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!"
    • 2022, Nas (lyrics and music), “Legit”, in King's Disease III:
      On my soul, this for my kids and the cold shit I done did

Anagrams

Danish

Adverb

did

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

Synonyms

Coordinate terms

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

did f (genitive singular dide, nominative plural dideanna)

  1. Alternative form of dide (“teat, nipple”)

Declension

Declension of did

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative did dideanna
Vocative a dhid a dhideanna
Genitive dide dideanna
Dative did dideanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an did na dideanna
Genitive na dide na ndideanna
Dative leis an did

don did

leis na dideanna

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
did dhid ndid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

Derived from English did.

Pronunciation

Particle

did

  1. Marks the past tense.
    Im did wel rich. Nou im puo.
    He was very rich. Now he's poor.
    • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Jan 1:40:
      Saiman Piita did av wan breda niem Anju. Nou, Anju a did wan a Jan tuu falara dem we did fala Jiizas afta dem ier wa Jan did se bout im.
      Simon Peter had a brother named Andrew. Andrew was one of John's two followers that followed Jesus after hearing what John said about him.

Further reading

  • did at majstro.com

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian dito, from Latin digitus.

Noun

did

  1. finger

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronoun

did

  1. Obsolete spelling of de (“you (plural)”)

Old Welsh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

did m

  1. day

Descendants

  • Middle Welsh: dyð

Romagnol

Pronunciation

  • (Central Romagnol): IPA(key):

Noun

did m (plural) (Ravenna)

  1. finger

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dědъ.

Pronunciation

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

Slavomolisano

Etymology

From Ikavian Serbo-Croatian did.

Pronunciation

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).

Yola

Pronunciation

Verb

did

  1. simple past tense of doone
    • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 94:
      Maade a nicest coolecannan that e'er ye did zee.
      Made the nicest coolecannan that ever you did see.

Derived terms

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 94
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