Past Participle (definition)

Past Participles are the verb forms used in passive and perfect aspect sentences. They often end in -en or -ed suffixes: The food was eaten. or He has eaten the food.

Gaelic doesn't have past participles, per se. Instead a special verb form called the verbal noun is used in these conditions, and other constructions.

See Also

• A list of verbal nouns
• Formation of Verbal Nouns
• Use of the Verbal Noun

External Links

• http://www.stravaiger.com/blog/?p=372
• http://www.past-participle.com/

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbal_noun

References

• Crystal, David (1999) The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin.
• Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.