Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In the English language, a participle is an adjective form of a verb. A present participle is a verb with a suffix "-ing" while a past participle is a verb with suffix "-ed". Some verbs may have an odd suffix or another odd form instead of adding "-ed"; they are called irregular verbs. Examples "talk" becomes "talking" and "talked" "do" becomes "doing" and "done" "get" becomes "getting" and "got" or "gotten". A present participle is often confused with a gerund, a noun form of a verb with "-ing". Other languages have different sorts of participles. E.g. Latin had: active present participle: educans "the one that teaches" passive past perfect participle: educatus "the one that has been taught" passive future participle: educandus "the one that shall be taught" Old English ended present participles with -ind. In the East Midlands dialect, it merges with -ing, with originally only named actions. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.