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Done can be a verb or an adjective.
done used as a verb:
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- Used in forming the perfective aspect.
"I done did my best to raise y'all."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
done used as an adjective:
- 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."" - 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!"
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
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What type of word is done?
- Verb usage: I done did my best to raise y'all.
- Adjective usage: As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat.
- Adjective usage: He pushed his empty plate away, sighed and pronounced "I am done."
- Adjective usage: They were done playing and were picking up the toys when he arrived.
- Adjective usage: When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days.
- Adjective usage: He is done, after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish.
- Adjective usage: I can't believe he just walked up and spoke to her like that, those kind of things just aren't done!
- Adjective usage: What is the done thing these days? I can't keep up!
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of done are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of done, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
