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past participle

A verb form indicating past or completed action or time that is used as a verbal adjective in phrases such as baked beans and finished work and with auxiliaries to form the passive voice or perfect and pluperfect tenses in constructions such as She had baked the beans and The work was finished. Also called perfect participle.

past participle

(Linguistics / Grammar) a participial form of verbs used to modify a noun that is logically the object of a verb, also used in certain compound tenses and passive forms of the verb in English and other languages

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Noun

past participle - a participle that expresses completed action

perfect participle

participial, participle - a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses

Translations

past participle n → participio passato

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past participle (redirected from Past participles)

past participle
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