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participle

UK/pɑːˈtɪsɪpəl//ˈpɑɹtɪˌsɪpəl/

participle noun: a form of a verb that may function as an adjective, noun or adverb. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. In other languages, there are others, such as future, perfect, and future perfect participles.

Noun

participle (plural participles)

  1. A form of a verb that may function as an adjective, noun or adverb. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. In other languages, there are others, such as future, perfect, and future perfect participles.

participle meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

participle in Hindi

verb form
कृदंत kŕdant

participle in Tamil

பெயரடை வினை, வினையெச்சம்

participle in Urdu

participle
حالیہ hāliya

participle in Malayalam

അപൂർണ്ണക്രിയ, പേരെച്ച വിനയെച്ചങ്ങൾ, ക്രിയാബന്ധം
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participle in Sinhala
කෘදන්ත
participle in Tagalog
pandiwari
participle in Arabic
اِسْم فَاعِل ism fāʕil, اِسْم مَفْعُول ism mafʕūl
participle in Malay
partisipel
participle in Indonesian
partisip
participle in Thai
รูปกริยาขยาย
participle in Vietnamese
phân từ

Examples of participle in a sentence

  • "To buy" is an irregular English verb: its past simple and past participle tense is "bought".
  • The archaic past participle shapen is only used in misshapen, ill-shapen, and well-shapen (the latter two are much less common, though).
  • The active periphrastic conjugation in Latin is formed by using the future active participle and the appropriate form of "esse".

All 16 example sentences with participle

Forms of participle

pluralparticiples

Plural of participle: participles

Origin of participle

From Middle English participle, from Old French participle (1388), variant of participe, from Latin participium.

Words formed from participle

Phrases with participle

2 more phrasesFewer phrases

Questions about participle

What does participle mean?
Participle means a form of a verb that may function as an adjective, noun or adverb. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. In other languages, there are others, such as future, perfect, and future perfect participles.
What is participle in Hindi?
Participle in Hindi is कृदंत (kŕdant). See Participle meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is participle?
Participle is a noun.
How do you pronounce participle?
Participle is pronounced /pɑːˈtɪsɪpəl/ (UK).
What is the plural of participle?
The plural of participle is participles.

Words near participle in the dictionary

  1. participialized
  2. participializes
  3. participializing
  4. participially
  5. participials
  6. participle
  7. participles
  8. Partick
  9. Partickhill
  10. particle
  11. particle accelerator

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: participle (page history and authors); participle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); حالیہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); participle (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); participle (Sinhala Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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