Present Passive Participles

Two types of participles that do NOT exist in Latin are:

• present active

• present passive

• perfect active

• perfect passive

Present active participles can be identified by what marker?

• using the 3rd principal part

• -ns or -nt-

• -us, -a, um endings

• -nd-

The perfect passive participle comes from which principal part?

• 1st

• 2nd

• 3rd

• 4th

How do PPPs decline?

• like 3rd nouns

• they don't decline because they're verbs

• like 2-1-2 adjectives

• like 3rd adjectives

What is the best way to translate the perfect passive participle?

• being loved

• having been loved

• loving

• was loving

Identify the participle in this sentence:

oppressī bellō longō, ducēs Graecōrum magnum equum ligneum faciunt.

bellum, ī, n: war

dux, ducis, m.: leader

Graecī, Graecōrum, m. pl.: the Greeks

ligneus, a, um: wooden

What type of participle did you identify in the last sentence? Give its tense and voice.

For reference:

oppressī bellō longō, ducēs Graecōrum magnum equum ligneum faciunt.

Now translate this sentence.

oppressī bellō longō, ducēs Graecōrum magnum equum ligneum faciunt.

bellum, ī, n: war

dux, ducis, m.: leader

Graecī, Graecōrum, m. pl.: the Greeks

ligneus, a, um: wooden