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Did you mean vs did you meant

The correct phrase to use is 'did you mean.' 'Mean' is the base form of the verb in this context, and 'did' is the auxiliary verb used to form questions in the past tense. 'Did you meant' is incorrect and not used in English.
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Did you mean

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to ask someone if they intended to say or write something specific. It is typically used when seeking clarification or confirmation.
  • Nov 17, 2009 ... "Do you mean" - present tense (used as a response to something someone is saying/writing now) "Did you mean" - past tense (response to something someone said/ ...
  • Dec 21, 2011 ... *.mm and put line with #import "AQRecorder.h" still getting error "Unknown type name 'class'; did you mean ' ...
  • Apr 14, 2022 ... I am getting the following error: NameError: name 'Dash' is not defined. Did you mean: 'hash'? Basically just installed dash and am trying ...
  • Mar 2, 2011 ... See 'git --help' Did you mean this? push. What is the config setting ... See 'git --help' Did you mean this? push kristian@office ...
  • Jan 24, 2024 ... "Did you mean"...No I fucking didn't Google. I'm using quotes for a reason. I am specifically looking for an exact phrase. Verbatim is ...
  • Jan 18, 2019 ... No command 'your' found, did you mean: #7531. Closed. Alnyz opened this issue on Jan ...
  • Apr 20, 2020 ... It asks every time "did you mean living room?' anytime I say "light on" or "light off". How do I make Alexa know that I always mean the light in the same group ...
  • Jul 12, 2014 ... Did you mean htmlFor? Any Wev developer new to React (or using this attribute in JSX for the 1st time) will think. WTF! how can the DOM ...
  • Jul 15, 2022 ... Did you mean to configure two Purchases objects? What I'm doing so far in my code is to initialize the Purchases like that: Future<void> ...
  • Oct 27, 2022 ... "Did you mean to add a recipient? You wrote “…[Email and phone redacted] ”, but it looks like you may have missed adding the recipient.".

did you meant

This phrase is incorrect and not used in English.

  • Dec 19, 2018 ...Did you meant?” Is correct, as it is a introgative sentence, hence both 'main verb(mean)' and 'helping verb(do)' ...
  • Mar 2, 2023 ...Did you meant?” Is correct, as it is a introgative sentence, hence both 'main verb(mean)' and 'helping verb(do)' ...
  • Nov 30, 2017 ... Which one is correct, "do you meant" or "did you meant"? Do you mean that? Do introduces a question in ...
  • Sanjeev, thank you for the reply. I'd like to know what you meant by lucubration element? Did you meant lubrication element?
  • Jul 27, 2024 ... But I am not sure when you say is a Class, you meant class like "Warrior, Sorcerer, paladin, etc..." or did you meant Class as in the Cast ...
  • May 9, 2018 ... Did you meant a Writer table, a Calc table or a Base table? Tibor Kovacs, Hungary; LO7.5.8 /Win7-10 x64Prof. PortableApps/winPenPack: LO3 ...
  • Oct 10, 2023 ... Did you meant, I don't require any kind of physical key if browser extension is installed ? This works fine when adding passkeys to google ...
  • Jul 5, 2020 ... did you meant i should open another screen with this code? ... whats wrong in this code???? ... what should i do?? ... can anyone tell me that is this ...
  • Oct 27, 2020 ... What did you meant with the old API? You'll get the same response in both the REST API and GraphQL. And to be able to redirect old UIDs to ...
  • ... from 'Data?' to 'Data' only unwraps optionals; did you meant to use '!'? Ask Question. Asked 6 years, 11 months ago. Modified 6 years, 11 months ago.

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