B2 · Upper Intermediate Chapter 43

Active Participles

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Unlock advanced Lithuanian narrative skills by mastering active participles for fluid, dynamic sentence structures.

  • Identify the present active participle suffixes.
  • Form the past active participle from various verb stems.
  • Apply these forms to create descriptive, concise complex sentences.
Dynamic descriptions for natural Lithuanian flow.

What You'll Learn

Mastering the four active participles (Present, Past, Frequentative Past, Future). Essential for advanced descriptions.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

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    By the end you will be able to: Use active participles to describe people and actions in a professional or creative context.

Tips & Tricks (1)

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Check the gender

Always check if you are describing a man or woman before picking -ęs or -usi.
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Past Active Participle (-ęs, -usi)

Key Vocabulary (5)

dirbantis working matęs having seen bėgantis running skaityjęs having read veiksmas action

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Review Summary

  • Verb stem + -antis/-anti
  • Verb past stem + -ęs/-usi

Common Mistakes

Ensure the participle acts as an adjective modifier, often needing commas in descriptive clauses.

Wrong: Žmogus einantis į parduotuvę.
Correct: Žmogus, einantis į parduotuvę.

Do not use present participles to create past tense; they only describe current status.

Wrong: Jis yra dirbantis vakar.
Correct: Jis dirbo vakar.

Participles must agree with the gender of the noun. 'Moteris' is feminine.

Wrong: Moteris, skaitęs knygą.
Correct: Moteris, skaičiusi knygą.

Next Steps

You are making incredible progress. Active participles are a hallmark of advanced fluency—well done!

Write 5 sentences describing people in your favorite photo using participles.

Continue to: Passive Participles

Quick Practice (9)

Correct the sentence.

Find and fix the mistake:

Jie, dirbęs visą dieną, pavargo.

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: Jie, dirbę visą dieną, pavargo
Plural agreement.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Past Active Participle (-ęs, -usi)

Fill in the correct participle form.

Tai yra ___ (dirbti) žmogus.

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: dirbantis
Masculine nominative.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Present Active Participle (-antis, -inti)

Choose the correct form.

___ (Mylėti) motina yra laiminga.

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: Mylinti
Feminine nominative.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Present Active Participle (-antis, -inti)

Choose the correct form.

Jie, ___ (dirbti) visą dieną, pavargo.

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: dirbę
Plural masculine.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Past Active Participle (-ęs, -usi)

Correct the error.

Find and fix the mistake:

Matau bėgantis (masc nom) šunį (acc).

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: bėgantį
Must match accusative case.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Present Active Participle (-antis, -inti)

Fill in the correct form.

Ji, ___ (matyti) viską, tylėjo.

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: mačiusi
Feminine singular.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Past Active Participle (-ęs, -usi)

Choose the correct form.

Ji ___ (eiti) namo.

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: ėjusi
Feminine singular.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Past Active Participle (-ęs, -usi)

Correct the sentence.

Find and fix the mistake:

Jis ėjusi namo.

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: Jis ėjęs namo
Gender mismatch.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Past Active Participle (-ęs, -usi)

Fill in the correct form.

Jis ___ (dirbti) namuose.

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: dirbęs
Masculine singular.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Past Active Participle (-ęs, -usi)

Score: /9

Common Questions (4)

Yes, but it sounds slightly more formal than using a relative clause.
It depends on the gender of the noun it modifies.
It's a verb form that describes a subject who performed an action in the past.
Take the past stem and add -ęs (masc) or -usi (fem).
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