Plural of participle
regular plural
The plural of participle is participles.
Forms of participle
| Singular | participle /pɑːˈtɪsɪpəl/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | participles |
| Countable | countable |
Participles in a sentence
- Oikoclitic participles are based on the perfective stem of verbs, while xenoclitic participles are marked by a special participial suffix.2017, Michael Beníšek, Eastern Uzh varieties of North Central Romani, Charles University, page 100. From the entry xenoclitic
- Based on the syntactic roles of the verbal collocatives in Russian, we divide their morphoparadigms into the grammemes of participles, gerunds, and personal forms plus infinitives.2004, Igor A. Bolshakov, “Getting One's First Million... Collocations”, in Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 5th…. From the entry morphoparadigm
- Compounds in which gerunds are the second element look exactly like compounds in which present participles are the second element, but different principles of hyphenation apply.1991, Edward Johnson, The Handbook of Good English, page 208. From the entry gerund
Meaning of 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.
Questions about the plural of participle
- What is the plural of participle?
- The plural of participle is participles.
- Is participle countable?
- Participle is a countable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: participle (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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