Meaning & use

Didst

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Archaic second-person singular past tense of "do," used with "thou."

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"What deed didst thou perform this day?" the old knight asked.

Thou didst promise to return before nightfall.

A note on using this word

A relic of Early Modern English verb conjugation, still encountered in Shakespeare, the King James Bible, and poetry.

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