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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 |