Meaning of past-participial | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C2]

Examples

“The book would have taken on added value if the compiler had pointed out the prevailing dialect difference of the York County area, […] especially the peculiar behavior of the past-participial “ge,” for ex., its contraction as in “gwesche,” “gwockse,” or its disappearance as in “Mier hen schpielt,” or its change before “s” as in “Er hot zawt (g’saat), “Er iss zuffe (g’soffe).”

“A letter on the editorial page of Le Devoir several years ago spelled it as enfirouappe, a past-participial adjective meaning hidden, perhaps in such a way as to camouflage or deceive.”

““Wrapt” is an obsolete past-tense and past-participial form of “wrap.””

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