perfect passive participle

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Noun

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perfect passive participle (plural perfect passive participles)

  1. (grammar) A participle, prominent in some languages (e.g. Latin, Greek) but less common in English,[1] describing something that happened to a noun (the subject) in the past.

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  1. ^ Insofar as it does exist in English, it usually matches the simple past form of a word, with rare exceptions such as arise.