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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