different between had vs done

English

Etymology

From Middle English hadde (preterite), yhad (past participle), from Old English hæfde (first and third person singular preterite), ?ehæfd (past participle), from Proto-Germanic *habd-, past and past participle stem of *habjan? (“to have”), equivalent to have +? -ed. Cognate with Dutch had, German hatte, Swedish hade, Icelandic hafði.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæd/
• (had to): IPA^(key): /hæt/, IPA^(key): /hæd/
• Rhymes: -æd

Verb

had

1. simple past tense and past participle of have.
2. (auxiliary) Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (with a past participle).
   • 2011 April 15, Ben Cooper, The Guardian, London:

     Cooper seems an odd choice, but imagine if they had taken MTV's advice and chosen Robert Pattinson?

3. (auxiliary, now rare) As past subjunctive: would have.
   • 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:

     To holde myne honde, by God, I had grete payne; / For forthwyth there I had him slayne, / But that I drede mordre wolde come oute […].

   • 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 24:

     If all was good and fair we met, / This earth had been the Paradise / It never look’d to human eyes / Since our first Sun arose and set.

Derived terms

• had better
• had best

Adjective

had

1. (informal) Duped.

   We've been had.

2. (obsolete) Available.

Usage notes

Had, like that, is one of a very few words to be correctly used twice in succession in English, e.g. “He had had several operations previously.”

Related terms

• be had

Anagrams

• ADH, AHD, DHA, HDA, dah

Afrikaans

Verb

had

1. preterite of hê; had

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *satos, from *sh?-tó-, past participle of Proto-Indo-European *seh?- (“to sow”). Cognate with English seed.

Noun

had m (plural hadoù)

1. (botany) seed

Central Cagayan Agta

Pronoun

had

1. (interrogative) where

Czech

Etymology

From Old Czech had, from Proto-Slavic *gad?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??at]
• Hyphenation: had
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

had m anim

1. snake

Declension

Derived terms

• hád?
• hadí
• hadice

Related terms

• hadice f

Further reading

• had in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• had in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz, from Proto-Indo-European *keh?d- (“hate”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ad

Noun

had n (singular definite hadet, not used in plural form)

1. hate, hatred

Related terms

Verb

had

1. imperative of hade

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t
• IPA^(key): /??t/

Verb

had

1. singular past indicative of hebben

Hungarian

Etymology

From Old Hungarian hodu, from Proto-Ugric *kont?, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kunta. Cognate with Finnish kunta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?d]
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

had (plural hadak)

1. (military) army

Declension

Derived terms

• hadászat
• hadi

References

Further reading

• had in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Jersey Dutch

Verb

had

1. had
   • 1912, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche taal— en letterkunde, volumes 31-32, page 309:

     En kääd'l had twî jongers; […]

     A man had two sons. […]

Matal

Verb

had

1. to walk, go

References

Middle English

Noun

had

1. Alternative form of hod

Old Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gad?.

Noun

had m

1. snake

Declension

Descendants

• Czech: had

Further reading

• “had”, in Vokabulá? webový: webové hnízdo pramen? k poznání historické ?eštiny [online]?^[1], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk ?eský AV ?R, 2006–2020

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“state, condition, rank, person”). Akin to Old Norse heiðr (“dignity, honor”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (haidus, “manner”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x??d/, [h??d]

Noun

h?d m (nominative plural h?das)

1. person, individual
2. a character
   • c. 1011, Byrhtferth, Manual

3. individuality
4. rank, status
   • 9th century, the Blickling Homilies, "The Third Sunday in Lent"

5. a person of the Trinity
   • 10th century, Ælfric, "Of the Catholic Faith"

6. honor, dignity
7. office (esp religious)
8. state, condition; nature, manner
9. gender
   • 10th century, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of the Holy Virgins"

10. (grammar) grammatical person
    • c. 995, Ælfric, Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice

11. race; kindred, family; tribe, group
12. choir

Declension

Related terms

• -h?d

Descendants

• Middle English: hod, hode, had, hade, hede
  • English: hade, hede (obsolete)
  • Scots: hade (obsolete)

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gad?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??at/

Noun

had m (genitive singular hada, nominative plural hady, genitive plural hadov, declension pattern of dub)

1. snake, serpent

Declension

Derived terms

• hadí
• hadica f

Further reading

• had in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ????? (?add).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /had/, [h??d?]

Noun

had (definite accusative haddi, plural hadler)

1. limit
2. boundary

Declension

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gad?.

Noun

had m

1. snake, serpent

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sato-, from Proto-Indo-European *sh?-tó-, past participle of *seh?- (“to sow”). Cognate with English seed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha?d/

Noun

had m pl or m sg (singulative hedyn, plural hadau)

1. seed, seeds (collectively)
2. semen, sperm

Related terms

• hadu (“to sow”)

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English don, idon, ?edon, gedon, from Old English d?n, ?ed?n, from Proto-West Germanic *d?n, from Proto-Germanic *d?naz (past participle of *d?n? (“to do”)). Equivalent to do +? -en. Cognate with Scots dune, deen, dene, dane (“done”), Saterland Frisian däin (“done”), West Frisian dien (“done”), Dutch gedaan (“done”), German Low German daan (“done”), German getan (“done”). More at do.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?n/, (regional pronunciations) [d?n], [d?n]
• (US) enPR: d?n, IPA^(key): /d?n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophones: dun, Donn, Donne, Dunn, Dunne

Adjective

done (comparative more done, superlative most done)

1. (of food) Ready, fully cooked.

2. Having completed or finished an activity.

3. Being exhausted or fully spent.

4. Without hope or prospect of completion or success.

5. Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.

Synonyms

• (ready, fully cooked):
• (finished an activity): completed, concluded, finished, in the books
• (being exhausted): See also Thesaurus:fatigued
• (without hope of completion): See also Thesaurus:doomed
• (fashionable): See also Thesaurus:fashionable

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

done

1. past participle of do

2. (nonstandard, dialectal) simple past tense of do; did.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Be Still... and Know That I Am God: Devotions for Every Day of the Year

     She opened it up to find a quarter and a note scrawled in childish letters that said, "I done it for love."

3. (African-American Vernacular, Southern US, auxiliary verb, taking a past tense) Used in forming the perfective aspect; have.
   • 2020, Moneybagg Yo, Thug Cry

     I done made some real bad choices with my life

4. (obsolete) plural simple present of do
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender

     The while their Foes done each of hem scorn.

   • 1606, Nathaniel Baxter, Sir Philip Sydneys Ourania, that is, Endimions Song and Tragedie, containing all Philosophie

     O you Caelestiall ever-living fires,

     That done inflame our hearts with high desires;

   • 1647, Henry More, The Praeexistency of the Soul

     The soul of Naboth lies to Ahab told,

     As done the learned Hebrew Doctours write,

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• 'done

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??n/

Noun

done (uncountable)

1. (slang) Clipping of methadone.

   on the done

Anagrams

• Deno, Deon, Endo, NODE, endo, endo-, node, oden, onde, oned

Basque

Adjective

done (not comparable)

1. holy

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?don?/
• Rhymes: -on?
• Hyphenation: do?ne

Noun

done

1. vocative singular of don

Anagrams

• node, onde

Dogrib

Noun

done

1. person

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French don.

Noun

done

1. (rare) gift, present

Etymology 2

Noun

done

1. Alternative form of dynne

Spanish

Verb

done

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of donar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of donar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of donar.

Venetian

Noun

done

1. plural of dona