past participle
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noun Grammar.
a participle with past, perfect, or passive meaning, as fallen, sung, defeated; perfect participle: used in English and other languages in forming the present perfect, pluperfect, and passive and as an adjective.
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Nearby words
past continuous, past life therapy, past master, past mistress, past one's prime, past participle, past perfect, past progressive, pasta, paste, paste mold
Origin of past participle
First recorded in 1790–1800
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Examples from the Web for past participle
The past-participle is invariably te hard, and is not varied as in Irish.
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British Dictionary definitions for past participle
past participle
noun
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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