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Adverbial
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Past participles can be used as adverbials in some more or less idiomatic expressions.

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There is no special morphology for adverbials. Past participles like sein said and nommen taken can be used as adverbials in more or less fixed idiomatic expressions like earlik sein to be honest and troch de bank nommen on the whole:

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a. Dêr sit ik earlik sein wat mei
there sit I honest said somewhat with
To be honest, I have reached the stage where I do not know what to do with it
b. Dat haadstik is troch de bank nommen goed trochtocht
that chapter is through the bank taken well through.thought
On the whole, that chapter is well thought through
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