adverbial participle

English

Noun

adverbial participle (plural adverbial participles)

1. (linguistics) A participle that modifies a verb in same sentence and which is equivalent to an adverbial clause in English. Adverbial participles may denote time, condition, cause, concession, manner, means, purpose, or attendant circumstance. Adverbial participles are found in such languages as Greek, Lithuanian, Hindi, Hungarian, Tamil, Polish, and Russian. In Russian, the adverbial participle usually translates to while + gerund (while doing) or having + past participle (having done).

Translations

linguistic sense

• Belarusian: дзеепрыме́тнік m (dzjejeprymjétnik)
• Bulgarian: дееприча́стие (bg) n (deepričástie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 副動詞 (zh), 副动词 (zh) (fùdòngcí)

• Chuvash: деепричасти (deepričasti)
• Czech: přechodník m
• Finnish: adverbiaalipartisiippi
• French: gérondif (fr) m
• German: Adverbialpartizip n, Transgressiv (de) m

• Hungarian: határozói igenév (hu)
• Japanese: 副動詞 (ふくどうし, fukudōshi)
• Korean: 부사분사 (busabunsa)
• Lithuanian: padalyvis (lt) m
• Polish: imiesłów przysłówkowy m
• Russian: дееприча́стие (ru) n (dejepričástije)
• Spanish: gerundio (es)
• Ukrainian: дієприслі́вник (uk) m (dijepryslívnyk)

See also

• converb
• transgressive