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: اِسْمُ ٱلْمَفْعُولِ m (ismu l-mafʕūli, literally “name of the thing that is done”)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: participe passif (fr) m