Editing Participle (section)

===Hebrew===
Like Arabic, Hebrew has two types of participles (בינוני ''bênônî''): an active participle (בינוני פועל ''bênônî pô'ēl'') and a passive participle (בינוני פעול ''bênônî pā'ûl''). These participles are inflected for gender and number. The active participle takes a variety of syntactic roles, such as a verb in present tense, a noun, and an adjective.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}

Hebrew has a syntactic construction of the verb "to be" (הָיָה) ''hayá'' in the past tense, and the active participle that cognates to the [[past progressive]] tense in English. For example, the word עבדתי ''avádti'' means "I worked", and הייתי עובד ''hayíti ovéd'' means "I was working". Another use of this syntactic structure is equivalent to "used to" in English. For example, דויד בילדותו היה גר בארצות הברית ''davíd b'yaldutó hayá gar b'arcót habrít'' (David in his childhood used to live in the United States).{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}