I'm teaching basic participial constructions now, but, with regard to those below, what different ways of translating them would everybody use?
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Participial
Synonyms for "participial" (25 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (8)
Related words (12)
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20 translations across 17 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- partisipiaal adj (of or relating to a participle)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μετοχικός adj (of or relating to a participle)
Dutch
2 entries- deelwoordelijk adj (of or relating to a participle)
- participiaal adj (of or relating to a participle)
Esperanto
1 entries- participa adj (of or relating to a participle)
Finnish
1 entries- partisiippinen adj (of or relating to a participle)
French
1 entries- participial adj (of or relating to a participle)
German
2 entries- Partizipial adj (of or relating to a participle)
- partizipial adj (of or relating to a participle)
Greek
1 entries- μετοχικός adj (of or relating to a participle)
Hebrew
1 entries- בינוני adj (of or relating to a participle)
Ido
1 entries- participala adj (of or relating to a participle)
Latin
1 entries- participiālis adj (of or relating to a participle)
Polish
1 entries- imiesłowowy adj (of or relating to a participle)
Portuguese
1 entries- participial adj (of or relating to a participle)
Russian
1 entries- прича́стный adj (of or relating to a participle)
Spanish
1 entries- participial adj (of or relating to a participle)
Swedish
2 entries- particip adj (of or relating to a participle)
- participial adj (of or relating to a participle)
Tagalog
1 entries- makadiwari adj (of or relating to a participle)
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§ 280. A Participial is a derived form of the verb used not for asserting but for expressing either, — 1. An object of thought; or, 2. A modification of such an object. Participials, accordingly, are either, — 1. Noun-participials; as, "To think is to act;" "Their sending the messacre was the cause of the trouble;" or, 2. Adjective-participials, more commonly called Participles; as, "The advancing army;" "The expected messenger."
Source: wiktionary
[…] the verb has two forms, which […] are called Participials, namely, (a) The Infinitv […] (b) The Participle […] .
Source: wiktionary
To have a short appellation, let us call participles and infinitives participials. Among all the myriads of words, a more skillful, many-sided and hard-working class than this could hardly be found, and still—such is the world's reward—they are strangers in a strange land forced to live with their aristocratic cousins, the "finite" verbs. For participials are not verbs in reality.
Source: wiktionary
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