-d English

Meaning -d meaning

What does -d mean?

-d suffix

— now only standard with words which end in -e, but historically permissable in all the same places as -ed.

— An empty suffix, perhaps derived from the past-tense suffix above, added in some dialects to the present tense forms of some words which then add an additional -ed in the past tense.

— marking ordinals ending with "third"