Noun

past participle

1. [ 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