Adverbial Participle Index

Tamil Adverbial Participles are used in complex sentences with more than one verb.  The Adverbial Participle is abbreviated AvP and is also called the Converbial or the Conjunctive Participle. AvP is used in the creation of the continuous and perfect tenses.

Formation of the Positive AvP:

• For verbs of all classes except class 3, take the past stem and add --உ 
• For class 3 verbs, take the past stem and add --இ

Formation of the Negative AvP:

Index of Posts related to the AvP:

• Example Sentences of Positive AvP uses from Balasubramaniam's Tamil: A Foundation Course Unit 38