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Greek Participles

Paradigms

Description

Participles are verbal adjectives.

Parsing of Participles

Participles are parsed as Tense Voice Ptcp Gender Number Case (TVPtcpGNC).

Tense

The tense of the participle is relative to the verb that it goes with. Present tense participles occur at the same time as the verb. Past tense participles occur before the time of the verb. Participle tenses are:

Voice

The voice is either :

Participles agree in GNC with the nouns they modify.

Uses of the participle

There are several uses of the participle.

Attributive use of the participle

If the participle has a definite article before it, then it is being used as an attributive participle. Adjectival treatment. Who, what, which.

Substantive use of the participle

In this use, there is no subject, but the participle supplies the subject implicitly. A definite article is present.

Predicate use of the participle

No definite article. Adverbial use. While, when, or after.

Genitive Absolute

In this use, the participle is in the genitive case and it stands out from the rest of the sentence.


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