perfect participle

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perfect participle

noun perfect participles

  1. a simple (one-word) participle, traditionally called the past participle, used together with an auxiliary verb to form a perfect tense, such as "eaten" in English or "gegangen" in German
  2. a compound participle, e.g. "having eaten" in English or "ayant mangé" in French.

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@misc{perfect_participle_2026,
  title = {perfect participle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/perfect%20participle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}