In many languages, the specific verb form used primarily to create perfect tenses, the passive voice, and to function as an adjective. For example, in English "painted" is the past participle of the verb "paint." In art descriptions, such terms are primarily used to index the status of a work or a process. When used in a text to describe a noun, thus as an "adjective," in many languages the word must agree in gender and number with the noun it describes.
