A compendious guide to the Low-Dutch language / Korte wegwyzer der Nederduytsche taal

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Of Participles.

Participles participate of Verbs, and are used and declined as Nouns Adjectives, being distinguished into Present and Past, the former being Active and the latter Passive, as Slaande Beating, geslagen beaten. But the Active is onely declinable and also distinguished into Genders as the Adjectives, as

	Sing.
Nom.	De werkende man The working man.
Gen.	des werkenden mans of the working man.
Dat.	den werkenden man to the working man.
Acc.	den werkenden man the working man.
Voc.	O werkende man O working man.
Abl.	van den werkenden man from the working man.

The Plural hath Werkende in all the cases.

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	Sing.
Nom.	De naaijende vrouw The sowing woman.
Gen.	der naaijende vrouwe of the sowing woman.
Dat.	aan de naaijende vrouwe to the sowing woman.
Acc.	de naaijende vrouw the sowing woman.
Voc.	O naaijende vrouw O sowing woman.
Abl.	van de naaijende vrouw from the sowing woman.

Note. The Feminine Participles are without variation, both in the Singular and in the Plural number.

	Sing.
Nom.	Het verwoestend vólk The destroying people.
Gen.	des verwoestenden vólks of the destroying people.
Dat.	den verwoestenden vólke or aan het verwoestend vólk to the destroying people.

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Acc.	het verwoestend vólk the destroying people.
Voc.	O verwoestend vólk O destroying people.
Abl.	van het verwoestend vólk from the destroying people.

The Plural hath verwoestende vólken or vólkeren through-out all the Cases.

But here it must be observed as in the Adjectives, that if the Particle een preceeds, the final e of the Participle is somtimes cut off; for thô we say De werkende man the working man, yet we say een werkend man, but never een werkend vrouw a working woman. So in the Neuter we say always een vliegend vogeltje a flying little bird, and yet several times when het preceeds, an e is added, as het vliegende vogeltje.

	Sing.
Nom.	Een bemind man or de beminde man a or the beloved man.
Gen.	eens or des beminden mans of the beloved man.
Dat.	aan den beminden man to the beloved man.

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Acc.	den beminden man the beloved man.
Voc.	O beminde man O beloved man.
Abl.	van den beminden man from the beloved man.

The Plural hath beminde in all Cases.

	Sing.
Nom.	Het gedrukt boek The printed book.
Gen.	des gedrukten boeks of the printed book.
Dat.	aan 't gedrukt boek to the printed book.
Acc.	het gedrukt boek the printed book.
Voc.	ô gedrukt boek, o printed book.
Abl.	van het gedrukt boek from the printed book.
	Plur.
	Gedrukte in all Cases.