perfect participle
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of perfect participle
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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Formerly the imperfect tense of this verb was gat, which is now obsolete, and the perfect participle was gotten, which, some grammarians say, is growing obsolete.
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Thomas Embly Osmun
As the perfect participle and the imperfect tense of irregular verbs, are sometimes different in their form, care must be taken that they be not indiscriminately used.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
They also make the dative plural of the third declension in -εσσι, and the perfect participle active is declined like a present participle in -ων.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
The regular passive verb to be loved, which is formed by adding the perfect participle loved to the neuter verb to be, is conjugated in the following manner:
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
A regular verb is a verb that forms the preterit and the perfect participle by assuming d or ed.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
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