Hello -

I am finding myself using participles as if the grammatical subject is fairly
intrinsic, and I wanted to determine if it is incorrect. I am having an aweful
lot of troubling employing Unicode in the generation of text, so I am writing
this with most proximate English analouges of ON characters that I do not have
at my disposal.

For instance, if I wanted to indicate that someone rides on a wolf, I have been
employing simply:

Hann er inn ulfborinn.
He is the wolfborne.

If I wanted to indicate that someone is bearing a wolf, I would use the present
participle without any other modifications:

Hann er inn ulfberandi.
He is the wolfbearer.

This facilitates the existence of frequent occurences of changing tenses in a sentence, as in the first sentence with its present third person iteration of vera, to be, or, for instance, indicating that someone has previously carried a wolf:

Hann var inn ulfberandi.
He was the wolfbearer.

It seems odd to me that participle tense would determine grammatical subject,
but I have intuitively adopted it from English.

I haven't finished the grammar in the Norse tutorials from the IE language
website, so, if it is something that will be clarified therein, a citation of
the appropriate lesson would be greatly appreciated. As I said, I am writing
lots of exercizes for myself, and I don't want to get too accustomed to
inappropriate application of participles.



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