Hindustani), aspectual participles which mark the aspect and non-aspectual participles which do not mark verbal aspect. The table below mentions the different participles present in
Hindustani, ''ɸ'' denotes the verb root. The aspectual participles can take a few other copulas after them besides the verb ''honā'' "to be". Those copular verbs are ''rêhna'' ''"to stay", ānā "to come", jānā "to go".
''
Sanskrit
Much like
Ancient Greek
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,
Sanskrit
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has a
wide array of participles.
Celtic languages
Cornish
In Cornish, an equivalent present participle construction to English is formed by using ''ow'' (''owth'' before vowels) with a verbal noun, e.g. ''Yma an den ow hwerthin'' ("The man is laughing"), and ''den ow hwerthin'' ("a laughing man"). Like Breton but unlike Welsh, Cornish also has verbal adjectives which are used similarly to English past participles, e.g. ''dehen molys'' ("clotted cream"), from the verbal noun ''mola'' "to clot".
Welsh
In Welsh, the effect of a participle in the active voice is constructed by ''yn'' followed by the verb-noun (for the present participle) and ''wedi'' followed by the verb-noun (for the past participle). There is no
mutation
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in either case. In the passive voice, participles are usually replaced by a compound phrase such as ''wedi cael ei/eu'' ("having got his/her/their ...ing") in contemporary Welsh and by the impersonal form in classical Welsh.
Slavic languages
Polish
The Polish word for participle is ''imiesłów'' (
pl.: ''imiesłowy''). There are four types of ''imiesłowy'' in two classes:
Adjectival participle (''imiesłów przymiotnikowy''):
* active adjectival participle (''imiesłów przymiotnikowy czynny''): ''robiący'' – "doing", "one who does"
* passive adjectival participle (''imiesłów przymiotnikowy bierny''): ''robiony'' – "being done" (can only be formed off
transitive verb
A transitive verb is a verb that accepts one or more objects, for example, 'cleaned' in ''Donald cleaned the window''. This contrasts with intransitive verbs, which do not have objects, for example, 'panicked' in ''Donald panicked''.
Transitiv ...
s)
Adverbial participle (''imiesłów przysłówkowy''):
* present adverbial participle (''imiesłów przysłówkowy współczesny''): robiąc – "doing", "while doing"
* perfect adverbial participle (''imiesłów przysłówkowy uprzedni''): ''zrobiwszy'' – "having done" (formed in virtually all cases off verbs in their
perfective forms, here denoted by the
prefix
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''z-'')
Due to the distinction between adjectival and adverbial participles, in Polish it is practically impossible to make a
dangling participle
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in the classical English meaning of the term. For instance, in the sentence:
*I found them hiding in the closet.
it is unclear whether "I" or "they" were hiding in the closet. In Polish there is a clear distinction:
* ''Znalazłem ich, chowając się w szafie.'' – ''chowając'' is a present adverbial participle agreeing grammatically with the subject ("I")
* ''Znalazłem ich chowających się w szafie.'' – ''chowających'' is an active adjectival participle agreeing grammatically with the object ("them")
Russian
Verb: слышать
sɫɨ.ʂɐtʲ(to hear,
imperfective aspect
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)
*Present active: слышащий
sɫɨ.ʂɐ.ɕːɪj"hearing", "who hears"
*Present passive: слышимый
sɫɨ.ʂɨ̞.mɨ̞j"being heard", "that is heard", "audible"
*Past active: слышавший
sɫɨ.ʂɐf.ʂɨ̞j"who heard", "who was hearing"
*Past passive: слышанный
sɫɨ.ʂɐn.nɨ̞j"that was heard", "that was being heard"
*
Adverbial
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present active: слыша
sɫɨ.ʂɐ"(while) hearing"
*Adverbial past active: слышав
sɫɨ.ʂɐf" (while) hearing "
Verb: услышать
ˈsɫɨ.ʂɐtʲ(to hear,
perfective aspect
The perfective aspect (abbreviated ), sometimes called the aoristic aspect, is a grammatical aspect that describes an action viewed as a simple whole; i.e., a unit without interior composition. The perfective aspect is distinguished from the imp ...
)
*Past active: услышавший
ˈsɫɨ.ʂɐf.ʂɨ̞j"who has heard"
*Past passive: услышанный
ˈsɫɨ.ʂɐn.nɨ̞j"who has been heard"
*Adverbial past active: услышав
ˈsɫɨ.ʂɐf"having heard"
Future participles formed from perfective verbs are not considered a part of standard language.
Bulgarian
Participles are adjectives formed from verbs. There are various kinds:
Verb: правя
ravja(to do, imperfective aspect):
*Present active: правещ
ravešt*Past active aorist: правил
ravil
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*Past active imperfect: правел
ravel
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(only used in
verb
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al constructions)
*Past passive: правен
raven
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*Adverbial present active: правейки
ravejki
Verb: направя
apravja(to do, perfective aspect):
*Past active aorist: направил
apravil*Past active imperfect: направел
apravel(only used in
verb
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al constructions)
*Past passive: направен
apraven
Macedonian
Macedonian has completely lost or transformed the participles of Common Slavic, unlike the other Slavic languages. The following points may be noted:
* present active participle: this has transformed into a verbal adverb;
* present passive participle: there are some isolated cases or remnants of the present passive participle, such as the word лаком
akom
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(greedy);
* past active participle: there is only one remnant of the past active participle, which is the word бивш
ivš(former). However, this word is often replaced with the word поранешен
oranešen(former);
* past passive participle: this has been transformed into a verbal adjective (it behaves like a normal adjective);
* resultative participle: this has transformed into a verbal l-form (глаголска л-форма). It is not a participle since it doesn't function attributively.
Baltic languages
Lithuanian
Among Indo-European languages, the
Lithuanian language
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is unique for having fourteen different participial forms of the verb, which can be grouped into five when accounting for inflection by tense. Some of these are also inflected by gender and case. For example, the verb ''eiti'' ("to go, to walk") has the active participle forms ''einąs/einantis'' ("going, walking", present tense), ''ėjęs'' (past tense), ''eisiąs'' (future tense), ''eidavęs'' (past frequentative tense), the passive participle forms ''einamas'' ("being walked", present tense), ''eitas'' (“walked” past tense), ''eisimas'' (future tense), the adverbial participles ''einant'' ("while
e, different subjectis walking" present tense), ''ėjus'' (past tense), ''eisiant'' (future tense), ''eidavus'' (past frequentative tense), the semi-participle ''eidamas'' ("while
e, the same subjectis going, walking") and the participle of necessity ''eitinas'' ("that which needs to be walked"). The active, passive, and the semi-participles are inflected by gender, and the active, passive, and necessity ones are inflected by case.
Semitic languages
Arabic
The
Arabic verb has two participles: an active participle (''’ism al-fā‘il'' اسم الفاعل) and a passive participle (''’ism al-maf‘ūl'' اسم المفعول), and the form of the participle is predictable by inspection of the dictionary form of the verb. These participles are inflected for gender, number and case, but not person. Arabic participles are employed syntactically in a variety of ways: as nouns, as adjectives or even as verbs. Their uses vary across
varieties of Arabic
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. In general the active participle describes a property of the syntactic subject of the verb from which it derives, whilst the passive participles describes the object. For example, from the verb كتب ''kataba'', the active participle is ''kātib'' كاتب and the passive participle is ''maktūb'' مكتوب. Roughly these translate to "writing" and "written" respectively. However, they have different, derived lexical uses. كاتب ''kātib'' is further lexicalized as "writer", "author" and مكتوب ''maktūb'' as "letter".
In
Classical Arabic
Classical Arabic ( ar, links=no, ٱلْعَرَبِيَّةُ ٱلْفُصْحَىٰ, al-ʿarabīyah al-fuṣḥā) or Quranic Arabic is the standardized literary form of Arabic used from the 7th century and throughout the Middle Ages, most notab ...
these participles do not participate in verbal constructions with auxiliaries the same way as their English counterparts do, and rarely take on a verbal meaning in a sentence (a notable exception being participles derived from
motion verbs as well as participles in
Qur'anic Arabic). In certain
dialects of Arabic
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however, it is much more common for the participles, especially the active participle, to have verbal force in the sentence. For example, in dialects of the
Levant
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, the active participle is a structure that describes the state of the syntactic subject after the action of the verb from which it derives has taken place. ''ʼĀkil'', the active participle of ''ʼakala'' ("to eat"), describes one's state after having eaten something. Therefore, it can be used in analogous way to the English
present perfect
The present perfect is a grammatical combination of the present tense and perfect aspect that is used to express a past event that has present consequences. The term is used particularly in the context of English grammar to refer to forms like " ...
(for example, ''ʼAnā ʼākil'' انا آكل meaning "I have eaten", "I have just eaten" or "I have already eaten"). Other verbs, such as ''rāḥa'' راح ("to go") give a participle (''rāyiḥ'' رايح), which has a progressive ("is going…") meaning. The exact tense or continuity of these participles is therefore determined by the nature of the specific verb (especially its
lexical aspect
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and its
transitivity) and the syntactic/semantic context of the utterance. What ties them all together is that they describe the subject of the verb from which they derive. The passive participles in certain dialects can be used as a sort of
passive voice
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, but more often than not, are used in their various lexicalized senses as adjectives or nouns.
Hebrew
Like Arabic, Hebrew has two types of participles (בינוני ''bênônî''): an active participle (בינוני פועל ''bênônî pô‘ēl'') and a passive participle (בינוני פעול ''bênônî pā‘ûl''). These participles are inflected for gender and number, but not case, unlike Arabic. The active participle takes a variety of syntactic roles, such as a verb in present tense, a noun, and an adjective.
Hebrew has a syntactic construction of the verb "to be" (הָיָה) ''hayá'' in the past tense, and the active participle that cognates to the
past progressive
This article describes the uses of various verb forms in modern standard English language. This includes:
* Finite verb forms such as ''go'', ''goes'' and ''went''
* Nonfinite forms such as ''(to) go'', ''going'' and ''gone''
* Combinations of s ...
tense in English. For example, the word עבדתי ''avádti'' means "I worked", and הייתי עובד ''hayíti ovéd'' means "I was working". Another use of this syntactic structure is equivalent to "used to" in English. For example, דויד בילדותו היה גר בארצות הברית ''davíd b'yaldutó hayá gar b'arcót habrít'' (David in his childhood used to live in the United States).
Finno-Ugric languages
Finnish
Finnish uses six participles (''partisiippi'') to convey different meanings. Below is a table displaying the declension of the participles of the verb tappaa (to kill).
The participles work in the following way:
Each and every one of these participles can be used as adjectives, which means that some of them can be turned into nouns.
Hungarian
Hungarian uses adjectival and adverbial participles.
Adjectival participles (''melléknévi igenév'') can be one of these three types:
* Present (active): ''olvas'' (read) – ''olvasó'' (reading), ''él'' (live) – ''élő'' (living)
* Past (usually passive): ''zár'' (close) – ''zárt'' (closed)
* Future (has a modal meaning): ''olvas'' (read) – ''olvasandó'' (to be read), ''fizet'' (pay) – ''fizetendő'' (to be paid)
Adverbial participles (''határozói igenév'') can be:
* Imperfect: ''siet'' (hurry) – ''sietve'' (hurrying, i.e. in a hurrying manner)
* Perfect: ''bemegy'' (go in) – ''bemenvén'' (having gone in) (this form is rarely used in modern Hungarian)
In Hungarian grammar the infinitive is also considered a kind of participle, namely the noun participle (''főnévi igenév'').
Turkic languages
Turkish
Participles are called ''sıfat-fiil'' (lit. adjective-verb) or ''ortaç'' in Turkish.
Turkish participles consist of a verb stem and a suffix. Some participles may be conjugated, but some may not. Participles always precede the noun they are defining, as in English.
Participle suffixes, like many other suffixes in Turkish, change according to the
vowel harmony
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and
sandhi
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.
There are eight types of participle suffixes; ''-en'', ''-esi'', ''-mez'', ''-ar'', ''-di(k/ği)'' ''-ecek'' and ''-miş''
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Eskimo-Aleut languages
Sireniki Eskimo
Sireniki Eskimo language
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, an extinct
Eskimo–Aleut language
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, has separate sets of ''adverbial participles'' and ''adjectival participles''. Different from in English, adverbial participles are conjugated to reflect the person and number of their implicit subjects; hence, while in English a sentence like "If ''I'' were a marksman, ''I'' would kill walruses" requires two full clauses (to distinguish the two verbs' different subjects), in Sireniki Eskimo one of these may be replaced with an adverbial participle (since its conjugation indicates the subject).
Constructed languages
Esperanto
Esperanto
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has six different participle conjugations; active and passive for past, present and future. The participles are formed as follows:
For example, a ''falonta botelo'' is a bottle that will fall or is about to fall. A ''falanta botelo'' is one that is falling through the air. After it hits the floor, it is a ''falinta botelo.'' These examples use the active participles, but the usage of the passive participles is similar. A cake that is going to be divided is a ''dividota kuko''. When it is in the process of being divided, it is a ''dividata kuko''. Having been cut, it is now a ''dividita kuko''.
These participles can be used in conjunction with the verb to be, ''esti'', forming 18 compound tenses (9 active and 9 passive). However, this soon becomes complicated and often unnecessary, and is only frequently used when rigorous translation of English is required. An example of this would be ''la knabo estos instruita'', or, the boy will have been taught. This example sentence is then in the future anterior.
When the suffix ''-o'' is used, instead of ''-a'', then the participle refers to a person. A ''manĝanto'' is someone who is eating. A ''manĝinto'' is someone who ate. A ''manĝonto'' is someone who will eat. Also, a ''manĝito'' is someone who was eaten, a ''manĝato'' is someone who is being eaten, and a ''manĝoto'' is someone who will be eaten.
These rules hold true for all transitive verbs. Since copular and intransitive verbs do not have passive voice, their participle forms can only be active.
An informal and unofficial addition to these six are the participles for conditional forms, which use ''-unt-'' and ''-ut-''. For example, ''parolunto'' refers to someone who would speak (or would have spoken), and a ''leguta libro'' is a book that would be read (or have been read). These unofficial participle forms are however very rarely used in practice.
See also
*
Attributive verb An attributive verb is a verb that modifies (expresses an attribute of) a noun in the manner of an attributive adjective, rather than express an independent idea as a predicate.
In English (and in most European languages), verb forms that can be u ...
*
Gerund
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*
Grammar
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*
Hanging participle
A dangling modifier (also known as a dangling participle or illogical participle) is a type of ambiguous grammatical construct whereby a grammatical modifier could be misinterpreted as being associated with a word other than the one intended. A d ...
*
Nonfinite verb
A nonfinite verb is a derivative form of a verb unlike finite verbs. Accordingly, nonfinite verb forms are inflected for neither number nor person, and they cannot perform action as the root of an independent clause. In English, nonfinite verbs inc ...
*
Transgressive (linguistics)
In linguistic morphology, a transgressive is a special form of verb. It expresses a concurrently proceeding or following action. It is considered to be a kind of infinitive, or participle. It is often used in Balto-Slavic languages. Syntacticall ...
*
Converb
In theoretical linguistics, a converb (abbreviated ) is a nonfinite verb form that serves to express adverbial subordination: notions like 'when', 'because', 'after' and 'while'. Other terms that have been used to refer to converbs include ''adverb ...
Notes
References
Participlesfrom the ''American Heritage Book of English Usage'' (1996).
*Quirk, R; Greenbaum, S; Leech, G.; Svartvik, J. (1972). ''A Grammar of Contemporary English''. Longman.
External links
*Ernest De Witt Burton: Moods and Tenses of New Testament Greek
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