passive participle

English

Noun

passive participle (plural passive participles)

1. (grammar) A participle indicating an ongoing or completed action or state in the passive voice, where a noun modified by the participle is taken to represent the patient of the action denoted by the verb.

Derived terms

• passive participial

Translations

passive participle

• Arabic: اِسْم مَفْعُول (ar) m (ism mafʕūl, literally “name of the thing that is done”)
• French: participe passif (fr) m
• German: passives Partizip n
• Japanese: 受動分詞 (じゅどうぶんし, judō-bunshi)
• Polish: imiesłów przymiotnikowy bierny (pl) m
• Russian: страда́тельное прича́стие (ru) n (stradátelʹnoje pričástije)
• Welsh: rhangymeriad goddefol m