• A participle is part verb and part adjective,
aka a verb that is used to describe a noun:
The monkey, having been greeted, walks to the
store
• In this example, the monkey is being
described by the participle having been
greeted.
• Participles in Latin have a tense (present,
perfect, or future) and a voice (active or
passive)
• Participles have a case, number, and gender
and must agree with the noun it describes
in case, number, and gender
• This is a participle that happens before the
main verb:
The monkey, having been greeted, walks to the
store.
• What happened first? The monkey being
greeted or the monkey walking to the store?
• The perfect passive participles are the
fourth principal part of the verb:
saluto, salutare, salutavi, salutatus
• It will agree with its noun in case, number,
and gender (and use 1st/2nd decl. endings):
simius salutatus ad tabernam ambulat.
simius is masc.,
sing., and nom.
and so is
salutatus
• Participles are part verb and part adjective
• They have a tense and voice
• Perfect Passive Participles happen before
the main verb of the sentence
• They agree with their noun in case, number,
and gender and use 1st/2nd decl. endings
• Translate as ‘having been _____ed’