Can't figure out what dedit means

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LatinGirly
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Can't figure out what dedit means

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Hi
I am translating a sentence and am stuck on the word dedit.
Could someone tell me the meaning?
Thanks

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It's the third person singular perfect active indicative of do, whose third principal part is dedi. So, 'he/she/it gave'.

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Yay! Thank you!

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It has a great likeness in appearance to English <i>do</i> and <i>did</i>. But supposedly it is not related, Latin <b>do</b> going back to Indo-European do- and English <i>do</i> going back to the root dhe-<pre></pre>

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