Re: Latin - English derivatives

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"fortuna11111" <fortuna11111@...>
wrote:

>
> > Actually, they are formed on the

supine / past participle, not the

> > perfect.
>
> Ops, sorry, that's what I meant.

I thought of PPP (Partizip Perfekt

> Passiv) so that's why the

confusion. Thinking between English
and

> German puzzles me sometimes.

And if you'd translated that
literally, there'd have been no
confusion! It's 'p.p.p.' in English
too, but for 'perfect passive
participle' as opposed to the
'present active participle'. But we
usually just refer to the 3
participles by tense.
.
Richard.