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participles
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participle <participle; participles> N

active participle

active participle N LING

passive participle

passive participle N LING

past participle N LING

present participle

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There are four non-finite verb forms: infinitive, passive infinitive, and the two participles perfective/past participle and imperfective/present participle.
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This affected the past participles of classes 2-4.
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For example, imperfective verbs generally lack a past passive participle, while perfective verbs have no present participles.
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The active participles are the only ones generally used.
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In particular, he started the trend of peppering news scripts with participles instead of using complete sentences.
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He also stated that there were hackneyed participles and vague structures, both syntax errors.
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Thus, unergative verbs can never use "zijn" as the auxiliary as their past participles can not be used as adjectives.
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In one sense, control is obligatory in these sentences because the present participles "singing", "understanding", and "holding" are clearly controlled by the matrix subjects.
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For example, there are a number of constructions using participles which are usually rendered analytically in speech.
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Present adverbial participles are formed by adding suffix -/- (sometimes -/- which is usually deprecated) to present tense stem.
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