past participle

 

noun

Grammar
  • the form of a verb, typically ending in -ed in English, which is used in forming perfect and passive tenses and sometimes as an adjective, e.g. looked in have you looked?, lost in lost property.

Grammar

One of the forms of the verb:

stemsmile
infinitiveto smile
present tensesmile/smiles
present participlesmiling
past tensesmiled
past participlesmiled
In regular verbs it is the same as the past tense form and is made by adding -ed to the verb stem (or just -d if the verb ends with the letter -e). In irregular verbs it is formed in different ways.The past participle is used to form a number of tenses: present perfect: I have smiled past perfect: I had smiled future perfect: I shall have smiledIt is also used to form past tenses with modal auxiliaries (I might have smiled, I should have smiled, etc.).