Meanings
nounperfect passive participle (plural perfect passive participles)
plural perfect passive participles
- grammarA participle, prominent in some languages (e.g. Latin, Greek) but less common in English, describing something that happened to a noun (the subject) in the past.
Translations
Greek μετοχή παθητικού παρακειμένου
- μετοχή παθητικού παρακειμένου (metochí pathitikoú parakeiménou)participle present in some languages
Polish imiesłów bierny czasu przeszłego
- imiesłów bierny czasu przeszłegoparticiple present in some languages
Welsh rhangymeriad goddefol perffaith
- rhangymeriad goddefol perffaithparticiple present in some languages
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