Past tense of do
irregular verb
The past tense of do is did. The past participle is done.
Forms of do
| Base form (V1) | do /də/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | did /dɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | done /dʌn/ |
| Present participle | doing /ˈduːɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | does /dəz/ |
Did and done in a sentence
- Boy, did I make a mistake!
- So who did marry the Princess in the end?
- The new teacher was strict and the students did not want to abide by his rules.From the entry abide
- Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord.From the entry accord
- Did you hear what she said about my outfit? She kind of clocked me.From the entry clock
Meaning of do
- verb A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
- verb A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
- verb A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
Verbs like do
Questions about the past tense of do
- What is the past tense of do?
- The past tense of do is did.
- What is the past participle of do?
- The past participle of do is done.
- Is do a regular or irregular verb?
- Do is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: do (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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