I'd like to ask a grammarian, isn't it possible to think of 'be + participle' like you do V C and such?
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Participle
//ˈpɑɹtɪˌsɪpəl//
Synonyms for "participle" (29 found)
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76 translations across 65 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- pjesore noun (verb form)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μετοχή noun (verb form)
Arabic
2 entries- اِسْم فَاعِل noun (verb form)
- اِسْم مَفْعُول noun (verb form)
Armenian
1 entries- դերբայ noun (verb form)
Asturian
1 entries- participiu noun (verb form)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- feli sifət noun (verb form)
Basque
1 entries- partizipio noun (verb form)
Belarusian
2 entries- дзеепрыме́тнік noun (verb form)
- дзеяпрыме́тнік noun (verb form)
Bulgarian
1 entries- прича́стие noun (verb form)
Catalan
1 entries- participi noun (verb form)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 分詞 /分词 noun (verb form)
Czech
2 entries- participium noun (verb form)
- příčestí noun (verb form)
Danish
2 entries- participium noun (verb form)
- tillægsform noun (verb form)
Dutch
1 entries- deelwoord noun (verb form)
Esperanto
1 entries- participo noun (verb form)
Estonian
1 entries- kesksõna noun (verb form)
Faroese
1 entries- lýsingarháttur noun (verb form)
Finnish
1 entries- partisiippi noun (verb form)
French
1 entries- participe noun (verb form)
Galician
1 entries- participio noun (verb form)
Georgian
1 entries- მიმღეობა noun (verb form)
German
3 entries- Mittelwort noun (verb form)
- Partizip noun (verb form)
- Partizipium noun (verb form)
Greek
1 entries- μετοχή noun (verb form)
Hebrew
1 entries- בֵּינוֹנִי noun (verb form)
Hindi
1 entries- कृदंत noun (verb form)
Hungarian
1 entries- melléknévi igenév noun (verb form)
Icelandic
1 entries- lýsingarháttur noun (verb form)
Ido
1 entries- participo noun (verb form)
Irish
1 entries- rangabháil noun (verb form)
Italian
1 entries- participio noun (verb form)
Japanese
1 entries- 分詞 noun (verb form)
Kazakh
1 entries- есімше noun (verb form)
Korean
1 entries- 분사 noun (verb form)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- атоочтук noun (verb form)
Latin
1 entries- participium noun (verb form)
Latvian
2 entries- divdabis noun (verb form)
- particips noun (verb form)
Lithuanian
1 entries- dalyvis noun (verb form)
Macedonian
1 entries- партицип noun (verb form)
Malay
1 entries- partisipel noun (verb form)
Mongolian
1 entries- үйлт нэр noun (verb form)
Norman
1 entries- participe noun (verb form)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- partisipp noun (verb form)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- partisipp noun (verb form)
Old High German
1 entries- teilnemunga noun (verb form)
Persian
1 entries- وجه وصفی noun (verb form)
Polish
1 entries- imiesłów noun (verb form)
Portuguese
1 entries- particípio noun (verb form)
Romanian
1 entries- participiu noun (verb form)
Russian
1 entries- прича́стие noun (verb form)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- rann-phàirt noun (verb form)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- particip noun (verb form)
- партицип noun (verb form)
Slovak
1 entries- príčastie noun (verb form)
Slovene
1 entries- deležnik noun (verb form)
Spanish
1 entries- participio noun (verb form)
Swedish
1 entries- particip noun (verb form)
Tagalog
1 entries- pandiwari noun (verb form)
Tajik
1 entries- сифати феълӣ noun (verb form)
Thai
1 entries- รูปกริยาขยาย noun (verb form)
Turkish
4 entries- durum ortacı noun (verb form)
- ortaç noun (verb form)
- partisip noun (verb form)
- sıfat-fiil noun (verb form)
Ukrainian
1 entries- дієприкме́тник noun (verb form)
Uzbek
1 entries- sifatdosh noun (verb form)
Vietnamese
1 entries- phân từ noun (verb form)
Walloon
1 entries- pårticipe noun (verb form)
Welsh
1 entries- rhangymeriad noun (verb form)
West-Frisian
1 entries- mulwurd noun (verb form)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
In a progressive tense sentence it becomes the -ing form verb, that is the present participle.
Source: tatoeba (328549)
The past participle must agree with the direct object if the direct object precedes it.
Source: tatoeba (9243503)
A participle is partly verb and partly adjective.
Source: tatoeba (11632545)
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