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Past participle
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Noun
past participle
- [ grammar]: a participle indicating a completed action or state, and functioning as an adjective. When combined with the verb to be, a past particple forms the perfect tenses of a verb. In a regular verb , the past participle ends in -ed, and has the same spelling as the past tense of the verb. Sometimes the last consonant needs to be doubled. Sometimes the end vowels change: y -> ied.
Examples
- to love, loved, loved
- to construct, constructed, constructed
- to justify , justified, justified
- to listen, listened, listened
- to beg, begged, begged
For the irregular verbs you can refer to the list of irregular verbs
Translations
- Czech: příčestí minulé n
- Dutch: voltooid deelwoord n
- Esperanto: participo
- French: participe passé m
- Italian: participio passato m
- Japanese: 過去分詞 (かこぶんし, kako bunshi)
- Spanish: participio pasado m
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