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passive participle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.64 in modern English

Syllables
pas-sive -par-tici-ple
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Inflected Forms

passive participles (plural)

Derived Forms

participial

Questions

What does passive participle mean?
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.

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