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Present Participle
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Used almost exclusively as and adjective or adverb.
Add -d to an infinitive + adjective endings |
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Participles used as adjectives
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Particples used as predicate adjectives or used as adverbs, take NO ENDINGS.
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Meanings of Present and Past Participles
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Present: nouns modified by a present participle are doing something.
Past: if modified by a past participle, then something has been done to the noun, or the past participle shows something that the noun has done. |
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Past Participle used with sein to express State of Being
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When a form of sein is used with the past participle of a transitive verb, the past participle functions as a predicate adjective describing a state of being or status.
In der Tabelle sind die Ergebnisse wiedergegeben. The results are shown in the table. NB: no ending to the the infinitive form |
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Infinitives used as nouns
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Always neuter.
The frequent combination zum + infinitive = for + verb + -ing. |
