Indeed, languages with three forms for present, past and participle have a way of trying to make two things out of three. Sometimes they marginalize the past form in favor of the participle.

Put simply, the past participle is the form of the verb that works with “have” to put something in the past. For example, “I walk” is present tense. “I walked” is simple past tense.

This is how dictionaries list past forms for irregular verbs: first the simple past tense, then the past participle, then the progressive participle.

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