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The past participle is used to form the compound pasts (e.g. ho lavorato, avevo lavorato, ebbi lavorato, avrò lavorato). Regular verbs follow a predictable pattern, but there are many verbs with an irregular past participle. verbs in -are add -ato to the stem: parlato, amato; some verbs in -ere add -uto to the stem: creduto;
The past participle is used in Italian as both an adjective and to form many of the compound tenses of the language. There are regular endings for the past participle, based on the conjugation class . There are, however, many irregular forms as not all verbs follow the pattern, particularly the -ere verbs.
Venetian: Xe/Gh'è/Iè rivà mé sorełe (lit. "(there) has arrived-m.sg. my sisters") --- no clitic and an invariable m.sg. past participle; In Italian the past participle is always inflected while in the Venetian in the impersonal form it is invariable and the verb has no plural (fem.) clitic, differently from the normal flection.
A new past tense was also created in the modern languages to replace or complement the aorist and imperfect, using a periphrastic combination of the copula and the so-called "l-participle", originally a deverbal adjective. In many languages today, the copula was dropped in this formation, turning the participle itself into the past tense.
The past imperfect, using vadeva 'were going' plus the infinitive; Plus tarde illa vadeva scriber un romance premiate. 'Later she would write a prize-winning novel.' The passive-voice past perfect, using habeva essite 'had been' plus the past participle; Nostre planeta habeva essite surveliate durante multe annos.
past participle, [8] which is regularly formed with an -ed suffix ... Esperanto has six different participle conjugations; active and passive for past, present and ...
Miller, who now receives Secret Service protection, was a fixture at campaign rallies and frequently appears on television or holding court with reporters on the north driveway of the White House.
The past participle were sometimes sporadically rounded to *-ū-, this situation is preserved in French. The "unstressed" indicative imperfect is very likely from shortened *-bămus , *-bătis , yielding to the stress on the third-from-last syllable ( can tā́ bămus ), as opposed to Classical Latin stress on the second-from-last syllable ...