Editing Participle (section)

==== Scandinavian languages ====
In all of the [[North Germanic languages|Scandinavian languages]] the past participle has to agree with the noun to some degree. All of the Scandinavian languages have mandatory agreement with the noun in number. [[Nynorsk]] and [[Swedish language|Swedish]] have mandatory agreement in both number and gender. [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]] and [[Faroese language|Faroese]] have agreement in number, gender and case. The verb form used for the perfect (or "[[supine]]") aspect is generally identical to the nominative neuter singular form of the past participle for all verbs. For the present participle there is no agreement.

Examples in [[Nynorsk]]:
* '''Sjølvkøyrande''' bilar kan vere farlege. (English: '''self-driving''' ''cars can be dangerous)''
* Kyllingen vart '''eten''' (English: The chicken was '''eaten''')
* Dyret vart '''ete''' (English: The deer was '''eaten''')
The participles are marked in bold. The first example involves a present participle and the two latter examples involves a past participle. All present participles end with an -ande suffix.

In Norwegian, the present participle may be used to form adjectives or adverbs denoting the possibility or convenience of performing the action prescribed by the verb. For example:
* Var maten '''etande'''? (English: Was the food '''edible'''?) (or rather: Was the food '''any good'''?)
* Utan servo vert bilen fort '''ukøyrande'''. (English: Without power steering, the car soon becomes '''impossible to drive'''.) (Lit: un-drivable)
This construction is allowed in Nynorsk, but not in [[Bokmål]], where suffixes like ''-elig'' or ''-bar'' are used instead.