did

Finished the task

Did is the past tense of do.

It has an important function in forming negative and interrogative forms of active verb phrases in the simple past tense, as in Did you know? and I didn’t know.

action

performed

Did as required

carried out · undertook · conducted · managed · handled · operated · enacted · implemented · administered · effected

completion

finished

Brought to an end

done · over · through · settled · resolved · closed · ended · achieved · attained · succeeded

past

was

Had being once

  • werePlural past existence verb
  • hadPossessed previously
  • used toPast habitual action

once · previously · formerly · earlier · before · already · back then · in those days · long ago · way back

sufficiency

enough

Meeting the requirement

acceptable · fine · okay · worked · served · sufficed · managed · got by · made do · passed

emphasis

indeed

Word affirming emphasis

certainly · absolutely · definitely · genuinely · honestly · surely · positively · in fact · for real · without doubt

Categories
Opposites
action completion

diddidn't

Past negative auxiliary

neglected · omitted · avoided · skipped · refrained

temporal status

didwill do

Casual promise to act

will

manner of action

didprocrastinated

Postponed action unnecessarily

shirked · slacked · neglected · ignored · dawdled

Phrases
Family

didn't, undid, outdid, overdid, diddly, redid, didst

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G