don – Old English verb conjugation

Old English verb forms of don

Infinitive

dōn
dōnne

Participles

Presentdōnde
Past(ġe)dōn

Indicative

Present

1st sing.dō
2nd sing.dēst
3rd sing.dēþ
1st plur.dōþ
2nd plur.dōþ
3rd plur.dōþ

Past

1st sing.dyde
2nd sing.dydest
3rd sing.dyde
1st plur.dydon
2nd plur.dydon
3rd plur.dydon

Subjunctive

Present

1st sing.dō
2nd sing.dō
3rd sing.dō
1st plur.dōn
2nd plur.dōn
3rd plur.dōn

Past

1st sing.dyde
2nd sing.dyde
3rd sing.dyde
1st plur.dyden
2nd plur.dyden
3rd plur.dyden

Imperative

Singulardō
Pluraldōþ

Verbs conjugated like 'don'

don,

Verbs similar to 'don'

deon, fon, hon, afon, ahon, bedon, beon, gan, gedon, leon,

Etymology

1. From Proto-West Germanic *dōn (“to do”). The exact development of past tense forms dyde, dydest, and dydon is unexplained, for such forms have -y- instead of expected -e-/-ǣ- (dede, dedest, dǣdon) from Proto-Germanic past stem *ded-/*dēd-.
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Old Frisian dwā, Old Saxon dōn, Old Dutch duon, Old High German tuon. Non-Germanic cognates include Ancient Greek τίθημι (títhēmi), Latin faciō, Old Church Slavonic дѣти (děti). See: Old Dutch 'duon', Greek, Ancient 'τίθημι', Latin 'faciō'.

Verbs referencing "don"

English do.

Sample Sentences

  • c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English
  • Iċ dyde swā iċ meahte. (I did what I could.)
  • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 17:12 (They did whatever they wanted.)
  • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 41:55 (Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.)
  • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Passion of St. Bartholomew the Apostle"
  • Þū dydest mīnne brōðor his god forlǣtan. (You made my brother renounce his god.)
  • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 3:3 (Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.)
  • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 4:19 (Follow me, and I'll make you fishers of people.)
  • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 42:36 (Then Jacob, their father, said, "You have made me childless. I don't have Joseph and Simeon is in chains; now you're taking Benjamin from me.")
  • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Andrew the Apostle"
  • Swā swā hī ǣr mid nette fixodon on sǣlicum ȳðum, swā dyde Crist þæt hī siððan mid his heofonlīcan lāre manna sāwla ġefixodon; forðan ðe hī ætbrūdon folces menn fram flǣsclīcum lustum, and fram woruldlīcum ġedwyldum tō staðolfæstnysse lybbendra eorðan, þæt is tō ðām ēċan ēðle, be ðām cwæð sē witega þurh Godes Gāst, "Iċ āsende mīne fisċeras, and hī ġefixiað hī; mīne huntan, and hī huntiað hī of ǣlċere dūne and of ǣlċere hylle." (As they before with a net had fished on the sea waves, so Christ caused them afterwards by his heavenly lore to fish for the souls of men; for they withdrew the people from fleshly lusts, and from worldly errors to the stability of the earth of the living, that is, to the eternal country, of which the prophet, through God's Spirit, said, "I will send my fishers, and they shall fish for them; my hunters, and they shall hunt them from every down and from every hill.")
  • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Memory of the Saints"
  • Sē fēorða leahtor is ira þæt is on englisċ wēamōdnyss. Sēo dēð þæt sē man nāh his mōdes ġeweald and macað manslihtas and myċele yfelu. (The fourth sin is Ira, that is in English, Anger; it causeth that a man have no power over his mind, and bringeth about manslaughters and many evils.)
  • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Mark 7:33 (He put his fingers in his ears.)
  • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 26:52 (Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back in its sheath.")
  • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 9:23 (So then Shem and Japheth put a blanket on their shoulders and walked backwards.)
  • Blōtmōnaþ hæfþ seofon rēgulārēs. Dō þrītiġ þǣr tō, þonne bēoþ þæt seofon and þrītiġ. (November has seven regulares. Add thirty to that, and it is thirty-seven.) [c. 1011, Byrhtferth, Manual:]
  • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Exodus 3:5 (Take your shoes off your feet! The place you're standing on is holy ground.)
  • c. 973, Æthelwold, translation of the Rule of Saint Benedict
  • XXXV. Be þām þæt man eallum munucum ġelīċe dōn sċyle. (35. On how all monks should be treated equally.)
  • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
  • Ēalā hū yfele mē dōþ maniġe weoroldmenn mid þām þæt iċ ne mōt wealdan mīnra āgenra þēawa. (Many worldly people treat me so badly, I'm not allowed to use my own strengths.)
  • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Luke 16:19 (I don't deserve to be called your son anymore. Treat me as one of your fieldworkers.)
  • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Chair of Saint Peter"
  • ...Næbbe iċ seolfor ne gold, iċ þē dō þæt iċ hæbbe... (...I have neither silver nor gold, I give thee that I have...)
  • c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English
  • Ǣte þū tōdæġ? Iċ dyde. (Did you eat today? I did.)
  • c. 992, Ælfric, "Sermon on the Beginning of Creation"
  • Þæt ċild wēox swā swā ōðru ċildru dōþ. (The child grew as other children do.)
  • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 3:8 (Then Adam hid himself from God's sight, and his wife did so too.)

Cognates

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