- a participle with past or passive meaning, such as fallen, worked, caught, or defeated: used in English and some other languages as an adjective, as in abrokenrecord, or along with an auxiliary to form perfect and passive verb constructions, as in We haveeaten and He waswounded.
- a participial form of verbs used to modify a noun that is logically the object of a verb, also used in certain compound tenses and passive forms of the verb in English and other languages
