didst

Thou's verb form

Didst is an archaic second-person singular past tense of do, used with thou: Thou didst betray me.

It appears in the King James Bible, Shakespeare, and other Early Modern English texts.

Modern speakers encounter it mainly in religious liturgy, historical fiction, or deliberately archaic speech.

archaic

thou

Archaic second-person pronoun

theeSecond-person object, antiquated
thyOld possessive pronoun
thineYours, archaically

hast · doth · art · shalt · wilt · ye · ere · hark · prithee · wherefore

linguistic

preterite

Simple past tense

conjugationVerb form variation system
inflectionWord form alteration
verbAction-expressing word

second-person · singular · morphology · etymology · grammar · syntax

Categories

Archaismsthee, thou, thy, thine, ye
archaic Englishthou, thee, thy, thine, ye
archaic verbsdoth, hast, hath, shalt, wilt
archaic wordsthee, thou, thy, thine, tis
Old English Wordsthee, thou, thy, thine, hitherto

Opposites

temporal register

didstdid

Completed an action

do · does · done · doing

grammatical tense

didstdost

Archaic second-person "do"

action polarity

Chose not to act

abstained · forbore

Phrases

I did itAdmission of responsibility
you did itPraise for accomplishment
did itCompleted the action
did the dishesCleaned cookware and utensils
did wellPerformed successfully
did the right thingBehaved in moral fashion

Family

Familiarity: Top 500,000
Profile: Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G