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principal parts

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principal parts
pl.n.
1. In traditional grammars of inflected languages, the forms of the verb that are considered basic and from which all other forms of the verb are derived.
2. In English, the present infinitive (play, eat, put), the past tense (played, ate, put), the present participle (playing, eating, putting), and the past participle (played, eaten, put).
principal parts
pl n
1. (Linguistics / Grammar) Grammar the main inflected forms of a verb, from which all other inflections may be deduced. In English they are generally considered to consist of the third person present singular, present participle, past tense, and past participle
2. (Mathematics) the sides and interior angles of a triangle
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principal parts
pl (Gram: of verb) → Stammformen pl
principal parts npl (Gram) → paradigma msg
principal parts npl (Gram) → paradigma msg


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These are the principal parts and most worthy of notice in Hippodamus's plan.
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He was to be the means of bringing together again these two people who had played the principal parts in Lovell's drama--his new employer and the woman who had ruined his life.
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And when I came it was the same: everything was neglected but French, German, music, singing, dancing, fancy-work, and a little drawing--such drawing as might produce the greatest show with the smallest labour, and the principal parts of which were generally done by me.
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