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Had vs Done - What's the difference?

had | done |

As verbs the difference between had and done

is that had is (have) while done is .

had

English

Verb

(head)
  • (have)
  • *1814 , Jane Austen, Mansfield Park :
  • *:About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton.
  • (auxiliary) Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (+ past participle).
  • *2011 , Ben Cooper, The Guardian , 15 April:
  • *:Cooper seems an odd choice, but imagine if they had taken MTV's advice and chosen Robert Pattinson?
  • 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.
  • *, II.4:
  • *:Julius Cæsar had escaped death, if going to the Senate-house, that day wherein he was murthered by the Conspirators, he had read a memorial which was presented unto him.
  • *1849 , , 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.

    • Related terms

    * be had

    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.

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    done

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of food) Ready, fully cooked.
    • As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat.
  • In a state of having completed or finished an activity.
    • He pushed his empty plate away, sighed and pronounced "I am done ."
    They were done playing and were picking up the toys when he arrived.
  • Being exhausted or fully spent.
    • When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days.
  • Without hope or prospect of completion or success.
    • He is done , after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish.
  • Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.
    • I can't believe he just walked up and spoke to her like that, those kind of things just aren't done !
    What is the done thing these days? I can't keep up!

    Derived terms

    * be done for * be done with it * done deal * get done for * overdone * well done

    Verb

    (head)
    • I have ''done'' my work.
  • (African American Vernacular English, Southern American English, auxiliary verb, taking a past tense) Used in forming the perfective aspect.
    • I done did my best to raise y'all.

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