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Passive participle

Passive participle

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Participle.

Macedonian

  • 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 [lakom] (greedy);
  • past active participle: there is only one remnant of the past active participle, which is the word бивш [bivš] (former). However, this word is often replaced with the word поранешен [poranešen] (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 does not function attributively.