乗った
解説 Definition
ridden は ride(乗る)の過去分詞です。形容詞的に「乗った」「乗られた」という意味で、馬や自転車などに実際に乗った経験や状態を表します。
Ridden is the past participle of ride, used to describe having traveled on or controlled a horse, bicycle, motorcycle, or similar means of transport. It also appears in passive constructions for something that someone has ridden.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
ride「乗る」の不規則な過去分詞で、ride–rode–ridden と変化します。語尾 -en を過去分詞の目印にし、have ridden a camel や a horse ridden by children の形で覚えましょう。発音は /ˈrɪdən/ で、ride の /aɪ/ ではなく短い /ɪ/ に変わります。
Learn the three irregular forms together: ride, rode, ridden. Ridden is the past participle, so it commonly follows have, has, or had, as in “I have ridden a camel,” or appears in a passive phrase such as “a horse ridden by children.” Notice both changes: the vowel shifts from /aɪ/ in ride to /ɪ/ in ridden, and the participle ends in -en. That -en pattern also appears in forms such as written and driven. Keep ridden separate from rode, which is the simple past form.
例文
This horse has been ridden by many children.
この馬には多くの子どもたちが乗ったことがあります。
The bike was ridden only once.
その自転車は一度だけ乗られました。
I have never ridden a camel before.
私はこれまでラクダに乗ったことがありません。
ridden の類義語・関連語
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ridden の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古英語ridan(馬に乗る)の過去分詞形。ゲルマン祖語rīdanąに遡り、「動く・揺れる」が原義。ride→rode→riddenと不規則変化する。関連語:ride(乗る)、rider(騎手)。複合語でfear-ridden(恐怖に取り憑かれた)のように「〜に支配された」の意味にもなる。
Ridden is the inherited past participle of ride. Ride comes from Old English ridan, “to ride or travel on horseback,” and is related to other Germanic verbs referring to riding or movement. Its modern irregular pattern, ride–rode–ridden, preserves historical changes in the stem vowel, while the -en ending marks the past participle, as it does in written, driven, and taken.
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