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 a Latin gerundive (or to an adjective in -bilis), e.g., to be feared, , &c.;  (desiderabilis) , , &c.;  ; , usually natus, but also (like  ) procreandus, nasciturus , ;  ;  ;  ;  (an animal). In, worthy to be praised. In, ;  ;.

3. The participles active, in virtue of their partly verbal character, possess the power of governing like verbs, and consequently, when used in the absolute state, may take after them an object either in the accusative, or with the preposition with which the verb in question is elsewhere usually construed, e.g. ; ; with the suffix of the accusative, e.g.  ;   (in   is abnormal); , sometimes also with the article, e.g.   (LXX ὁ κραταιῶν με); –16, 13:6, 11, 20:1, ,  (where, however, Cheyne omits the article), 63:11, , , ; followed by a preposition, e.g.  ;.

By an exhaustive examination of the statistics, Sellin (see the title at the head of § 113), p. 40 ff., shows that the participle when construed as a expresses a single and comparatively transitory act, or relates to particular cases, historical facts, and the like, while the participle construed as a noun (see g) indicates repeated, enduring, or commonly occurring acts, occupations, and thoughts.

So also the verbal adjectives of the form qāṭēl may take an accusative of the person or thing, if the finite verb from which they are derived governs an accusative, e.g. ;.

As a sort of noun the participle may, however, also exercise the same government as a noun, being in the construct state, and followed by the object of the action in the genitive (see ; and cf. ), e.g. ; cf. f.; also when a verbal adjective, e.g. and often