Participes passés et présents

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De nombreux participes présents et passés ont valeur d’adjectifs. On les appelle en anglais ‘Participial adjectives’. Ils fonctionnent généralement par paire (mais ce n’est pas une obligation). En règle générale, la terminaison -ing en anglais correspond à -ant en français (ex : surprising – surprenant) et -ed en anglais à -é en français (ex : embarrassed – embarrassé), sauf s’il s’agit d’un verbe irrégulier anglais (ex : upset – perturbé) , ou un verbe appartenant aux 2ème ou 3ème groupes en français (ex : confused – confus)
La plupart ont une racine latine et ressemblent fortement à des participes français. Ils sont donc faciles à retenir et à utiliser.

A lot of present or past participles can be used as adjectives. Guess what we call them? Participial adjectives, of course!
Here is a list of participial adjectives working in pairs so to speak 😉 (Nb : * Irregular verbs, thus not ending in -ed)

Most of these participial adjectives have latin and/ or French roots so they will seem very familiar to French speakers.

 

Affected

Affecting

Aged

Ageing

Agonized

Agonizing

Amazed

Amazing

Amused

Amusing

Annoyed

Annoying

Astonished

Astonishing

Awake*

Awakening

Bored

Boring

Charmed

Charming

Confused

Confusing

Connected

Connecting

Convinced

Convincing

Degraded

Degrading

Deluded

Deluding

Depressed

Depressing

Disappointed

Disappointing

Disgusted

Disgusting

Disturbed

Disturbing

Elevated

Elevating

Embarrassed

Embarrassing

Embittered

Embittering

Excited

Exciting

Exhausted

Exhausting

Exhilarated

Exhilarating

Fascinated

Fascinating

Frightened

Frightening

Frustrated

Frustrating

Gratified

Gratifying

Grown*

Growing

Horrified

Horrifying

Interested

Interesting

Infuriated

Infuriating

Irritated

Irritating

Motivated

Motivated

Moved

Moving

Petrified

Petrifying

Pleased

Pleasing

Puzzled

Puzzling

Relaxed

Relaxing

Satisfied

Satisfying

Shocked

Shocking

Surprised

Surprising

Tempted

Tempting

Terrified

Terrifying

Tired

Tiring

Thrilled

Thrilling

Traumatized

Traumatizing

Upset*

Upsetting

Varied

Varying

Wanted

Wanting

Wasted

Wasting

Worm-eaten

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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