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passive participle

passive participle noun: a participle indicating an ongoing or completed action or state in the passive voice, where a noun modified by the participle is taken to represent the patient of the action denoted by the verb.

Noun

passive participle (plural passive participles)

  1. A participle indicating an ongoing or completed action or state in the passive voice, where a noun modified by the participle is taken to represent the patient of the action denoted by the verb.

Forms of passive participle

pluralpassive participles

Words formed from passive participle

Questions about passive participle

What does passive participle mean?
Passive participle means a participle indicating an ongoing or completed action or state in the passive voice, where a noun modified by the participle is taken to represent the patient of the action denoted by the verb.
What part of speech is passive participle?
Passive participle is a noun.
What is the plural of passive participle?
The plural of passive participle is passive participles.

Words near passive participle in the dictionary

  1. passive iron
  2. passive learning
  3. passive matrices
  4. passive matrix
  5. passive matrixes
  6. passive participle
  7. passive participles
  8. passive photolocation
  9. passive provision
  10. passive radar
  11. passive resistance

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