perfect participles

A form of perfect participle — a simple (one-word) participle, traditionally called the past participle, used together with an auxiliary verb to form a perfect tense, such as "eaten" in English or "gegangen" in German

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of perfect participle
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