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We done well vs We did well

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'We did well' is the more common and standard way to express that a task or activity was performed successfully in the past. 'We done well' is grammatically correct but less common and considered informal or dialectal.

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We done well

The phrase is grammatically correct but less common and considered informal or dialectal.

This phrase is used informally or in certain dialects to express that a task or activity was performed successfully in the past.
  • We've done well to hold our ground.
  • We have done well but we could still do a lot better.
  • We've done well here, Grace.
  • Three serving maids, we have done well from that particular constituency.
  • What then? - We have done well to evade Crais as it is.
  • This is in 13 hospitals in four countries, and since 2010, we've done well over 2,000 surgeries with no clinically adverse events.
  • Look, guys, I know historically we've never done well at sports day but this is the last one ever.
  • Despite this, the House will continue to work and point out areas where we have not done well.
  • It must be said we have not done well in connection with those famous economic partnership agreements.
  • Yes, if we keep our current pace, we should be done well before we drop below the necessary power requirements to jump into hyperspace and meet the Apollo.
  • We've done well, haven't we?
  • I think we've done pretty well.
  • We've done very well here.
  • Yes, we've done very well, Ray.
  • We've done pretty well over time, Virgil.
  • I think we all have to accept that after the power challenge, where we should have done well, we haven't.
  • Exactly. I mean, we've done very well with Telecomputer.
  • I would argue that we have done very well by one another.
  • This is an extremely important point and we have done very well to get it across.
  • Gentlemen... we have done our work well.

Alternatives:

  • we did well
  • we performed well
  • we succeeded
  • we excelled
  • we achieved success

We did well

The phrase is the more common and standard way to express that a task or activity was performed successfully in the past.

This phrase is the standard way to express that a task or activity was performed successfully in the past.
  • Even at this moment... I don't know if we did well.
  • Mr President, yesterday we did well to finish the first reading of the recast dossier for the TEN-T networks.
  • If everyone continues to give as much, we did well.
  • We did well with the pigs in the other fat stock shows, so let me discuss it with our pig man.
  • I think we did well with this one, val.
  • I agree with the previous speaker that we did well to negotiate a reduction in the budgetary proposals from the Bureau, which originally involved an excessive growth rate of 5.2%, down to an increase of 2.3%.
  • We did well moving the table out here.
  • We did well coming so early.
  • So what we did well, that can't really happen again.
  • When we did well... that's just what he expected of us.
  • So we did well to have a second reading and concentrate on the amendments to the three basic questions that remain open, on which there is a clash with the Council at the moment.
  • When the company did well, we did well when the company did not do well, sir, we did not do well.
  • Minced meat is, in any case, already connected to the animal from which it derives with the arrangements which we have in the regulation and the other matters are technical and production matters and we did well not to change the wording of the regulation.

Alternatives:

  • we done well
  • we performed well
  • we succeeded
  • we excelled
  • we achieved success

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