Past participle

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Noun

past participle

1. [ grammar]: a participle indicating a completed action or state, and functioning as an adjective. When combined with the verb to be, a past particple forms the perfect tenses of a verb. In a regular verb, the past participle ends in -ed, and has the same spelling as the past tense of the verb. Sometimes the last consonant needs to be doubled. Sometimes the end vowels change: y -> ied.

• to love, loved, loved
• to construct, constructed, constructed
• to justify, justified, justified
• to listen, listened, listened
• to beg, begged, begged

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