Past Participle Definition

noun
A participle used a) with auxiliaries to express, typically, completed action or a time or state gone by (Ex.: spoken in “he has spoken”) b) with auxiliaries to form the passive voice (Ex.: eaten in “the snails were all eaten in a moment”) c) as an adjective (Ex.: polished in “polished brass”)
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(grammar) A participle indicating a completed action or state.

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Synonyms:
adjective
Attributive form of past participle, noun.
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Other Word Forms of Past Participle

Noun

Singular:
past participle
Plural:
past-participles

Past Participle Sentence Examples

  • As in Provenal, the past participle of a large ntimber of verbs of the 2nd and 3rd conjugations is formed, not from the infinitive, but from the perfect (pogut, volgut, tingut suggest the perfects poch, volch, tinch, and not the infinitives poder, voler, tenir).

  • It is made up of the imperfect subjunctive of the auxiliary verbs followed by the past participle.

  • For the passive voice, a fi is used, with the past participle of the required verb.

  • The main part is the ' third part ' of a verb, which is properly called the past participle.

  • The teacher writes each past participle and each past simple onto separate pieces of paper as they elicit the correct form from the students.

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PPAPAS

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ELEPLE

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