PARTICIPLES
Verb: to carry
Participle: carrying, having been
carried
Present active participle (mittēns -
‘sending’)
Forms as nouns 3rd declension
Examples:
The girl, singing a beautiful song, entered
the garden.
puella, carmen pulchrum cantāns, hortum intravit.
I heard a girl, singing a beautiful song.
puellam, carmen pulchrum cantantem, audīvī.
Perfect passive participle (missus –
‘having been sent’)
Forms as nouns 1st / 2nd declension
Examples:
Letter, (having been) sent by the king,
arrived too late.
epistula, ā rege missa, tardē advēnit.
Verb: to carry
Participle: carrying, having been
carried
Present active participle (mittēns -
‘sending’)
Forms as nouns 3rd declension
Examples:
The girl, singing a beautiful song, entered
the garden.
puella, carmen pulchrum cantāns, hortum intravit.
I heard a girl, singing a beautiful song.
puellam, carmen pulchrum cantantem, audīvī.
Perfect passive participle (missus –
‘having been sent’)
Forms as nouns 1st / 2nd declension
Examples:
Letter, (having been) sent by the king,
arrived too late.
epistula, ā rege missa, tardē advēnit.