Meaning: do

Illustrative Context

What did you do in the village yesterday?

Target Sense

• The most generic verb for carrying out an activity or action.
• The basic meaning should be just of performing an activity, not for creating an object which results from the activity. So avoid terms like English make, which have specifically that sense, in opposition to a more general do word. Note that in German, however, the cognate word machen is now also a generic do word, not specific to making objects, and therefore does fit the target sense here.
• Avoid auxiliaries if they have a different form to the main content verb.