In this video, I explain participles as adjectives in Russian. Participles as adjectives are verbs that form an active tense as adjectives; they combine the qualities of verbs (tense, aspect, voice) and adjectives (gender, quantity, case) by describing the qualities of objects. They also possess characteristics of verbs and adjectives that depend on a verbal action while similarly using the same endings as normal adjectives, in the active present and past. Present active participles are only derived from imperfective verbs which are actions that are currently taking place which the subject is doing at the moment. To form them, take the они conjugation of the present tense verb, drop the т, and add the endings щий (masculine), щая (feminine), щее (neuter), and щие (plural) (ex. читать - to read / читающий - a masculine subject reading, etc, читающая, читающee, читающие). Past active participles work with both imperfective and perfective verbs, and they show an action that the subject was doing or did, and to form them, take the past tense verb’s stem and add the endings вший (masculine), вшая (feminine), вшее (neuter), and вшие (plural) (ex. читать - to read / читавший - a masculine subject who was reading, etc, читавшая, читавшee, читавшие). With reflexive verbs, ся is always added at the participle’s ending, NO MATTER the case and tense. There are, however, irregular exceptions in the active present and past, and in the video, I show many examples with every participle.

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