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What is the grammargram­mat­i­cal term for "-ed"“‑ed” words like these?

In englishEnglish we have wordssay things like "calibrated" device, "distributed" product, "founded" company, "destroyed" house, and so forth.:

  • a cal­i­brated de­vice
  • a dis­trib­uted prod­uct
  • a founded com­pany
  • a de­stroyed house

TheyThose ‑ed words there all signifysig­nify that "A VERBsome verb (here re­spec­tively cal­i­brate, dis­tribute, found, or de­stroy) has been "done onto" a NOUN"“done onto” the noun that fol­lows it.

What What is the term for this grammatical devicegram­mat­i­cal de­vice? Or, what is a singlesin­gle term for "something being done to X"some­thing hav­ing been done unto X as a characteristic char­ac­ter­is­tic of Xthat X?

As­sum­ing that we’re talk­ing only about words that de­rive from verbs and used with nouns here like my ex­am­ples all do, can that gram­mat­i­cal term you’ve cho­sen also be ap­plied to any sorts of words that do not end in ‑ed, and are there any sorts of words that do end in ‑ed which this gram­mat­i­cal term would not ap­ply equally to?

What is the grammar term for "-ed" words?

In english we have words like "calibrated" device, "distributed" product, "founded" company, "destroyed" house, and so forth.

They all signify that "A VERB has been "done onto" a NOUN".

What is the term for this grammatical device? Or, what is a single term for "something being done to X" as a characteristic of X?

What is the gram­mat­i­cal term for “‑ed” words like these?

In English we say things like:

  • a cal­i­brated de­vice
  • a dis­trib­uted prod­uct
  • a founded com­pany
  • a de­stroyed house

Those ‑ed words there all sig­nify that some verb (here re­spec­tively cal­i­brate, dis­tribute, found, or de­stroy) has been “done onto” the noun that fol­lows it. What is the term for this gram­mat­i­cal de­vice? Or, what is a sin­gle term for some­thing hav­ing been done unto X as a char­ac­ter­is­tic of that X?

As­sum­ing that we’re talk­ing only about words that de­rive from verbs and used with nouns here like my ex­am­ples all do, can that gram­mat­i­cal term you’ve cho­sen also be ap­plied to any sorts of words that do not end in ‑ed, and are there any sorts of words that do end in ‑ed which this gram­mat­i­cal term would not ap­ply equally to?

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What is the grammar term for "-ed" words?

In english we have words like "calibrated" device, "distributed" product, "founded" company, "destroyed" house, and so forth.

They all signify that "A VERB has been "done onto" a NOUN".

What is the term for this grammatical device? Or, what is a single term for "something being done to X" as a characteristic of X?