Active and Passive Participles
63. What is an active participle?
64. How is an active participle formed?
65. What is a passive participle?
66. How is a passive participle formed?
63. An active participle is a form that denotes the actor of an action.
64. An active participle is formed:
• from triliteral verbs: using the form فَاعِل , for example: ضَارِب سَامِع (listener, hitter)
• from other than triliteral verbs: one must take the aorist active verb and replace the aorist letter with a mīm that has a dummah. For example: مُنطَلِق مُتقَدّم(starting point, well-advanced)
65. The passive participle is a form that denotes what the verb happened on.
66. The passive participle is formed:
• from triliteral verbs: using the form مَفعول , for example: مَضرُوب مَسمُوع (what was hit, what was heard)
• from other than triliteral verbs: one must take the aorist passive verb and replace the aorist letter with a mīm that has a dummah. For example: مُکرَم مُقَدّم (honored, put forth)