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Passive Present Participles (pprp)

Passive Present Participles (pprp)

√labh 1 a (get)

     
base labha  
pr labhati he gets, obtains
prp labhanta getting; obtaining
pass.pr labbhati it is got, is obtained
pass.prp labbhanta being got; being obtained

How To Form Passive Present Participles (pprp)

root + ya / iya / īya > passive base

passive base + māna > passive present participle

√muc 2 ṃa (release, free)

     
base muñca √muc + ṃa
pr muñcati he frees; releases
prp muñcanta
muñcamāna
freeing; releasing
passive base mucca
muñcīya
√muc + ya
√muc + ṃa + īya
pass pr muccati
muñcīyati
is freed; is released
pass prp muccanta
muccamāna
being freed; being released

[Additionally], in poetry, some passive verbs take different verbal endings, called the attanopada lit. “word for oneself”

All verbal endings that you have dealt with thus far have been parassapada “word for another”.

  parassapada   attanopada  
3rd ti nti te nte
2nd si tha se vhe
1st āmi āma e āmhe

In English, these are called reflexive verbs, or the middle voice.

They are literally translated as he himself, they themselves etc.

This form of the verb, while common in Sanskrit, has mostly died out in Pāli prose, but it is still commonly used in idioms and verse.

Now, this idea, introduced only lightly at this stage, will be fully explored in the Intermediate Pāli Course.
Specifically, it will be explained that every verb you’ve learned so far has both an attanopada and parassapada endings.