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past participle

Syllabification: (past par·ti·ci·ple)
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Definition of past participle

noun

Grammar
  • the form of a verb, typically ending in -ed in English, that is used in forming perfect and passive tenses and sometimes as an adjective, e.g., looked in have you looked? and 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 smiledpast perfect: I had smiledfuture perfect: I shall have smiledIt is also used to form past tenses with modal auxiliaries (I might have smiled, I should have smiled, etc.).

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Definition of past participle in the British & World English dictionary