Editing Plautdietsch (section)

====Participles====
The present participle, formed of the infinitive plus a '''-t''' ending, is not often used. It appears in idiomatic expressions like '''aunhoolent bliewen''' (to persist), and in a few adjective forms, which have to be inflected for number, gender and case, the -t is voiced into -d: koaken, koakendet Wota (to boil, boiling water).

The past participle of weak verbs is formed with '''je-''' plus the stem of the verb plus '''-t'''. A voiced consonant is devoiced to go along with '''t''', the inserted '''e''' between double consonant is retained, the '''r''' after a long vowel is dropped. For the weak verbs given above the past participles are: '''jespält, jelacht, jejäft, jeodemt, jeroat'''.

The past participle for strong and anomalous verbs is hard to predict, they could be formed in five or six different ways:
# some are like the weak verbs: '''jejäft, jesajcht''' (given, said);
# others are formed of '''je-''' plus infinitive: '''jestonen''' (stood);
# some, including modal verbs, of '''je-''' plus first person past tense: '''jehaut'''; '''jesocht''', '''jekunt''' (had, sought, been able);
# others of '''je-''' plus plural past: '''jefungen''' (found);
# Those with an '''ee''' or '''oo''' in past tense are simplified to '''ä/o''': '''jeschräwen, jedonen''' (written, done)
# the past participle of '''sennen''' is '''jewast''' (been)

Adjectives are frequently made from the past participle by attaching an adjective inflection ending and voicing the final '''t'''; if the preceding consonant is voiced, with '''-en''' participles the '''e''' is dropped:

'''{{lang|de|molen, jemolt, een jemoldet Bilt}}''' (to draw, drawn, a drawn picture)

'''koaken, jekoakt, eene jekoakte Ieedschock''' (to boil, boiled, a boiled potato)

'''stälen, jestolen, een jestolna Hunt''' (to steal, stolen, a stolen dog)