perfect passive participle
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
perfect passive participle (plural perfect passive participles)
- (grammar) A participle, prominent in some languages (e.g. Latin, Greek) but less common in English,[1] describing something that happened to a noun (the subject) in the past.
Translations[edit]
participle present in some languages
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References[edit]
- ^ Insofar as it does exist in English, it usually matches the simple past form of a word, with rare exceptions such as arise.