Participles in Latvian grammar are a key component to understanding sentence structure, they are used extensively to convey action or state in various contexts. Likewise in English, participles can take active or passive form and can be used in the present or past tense. The main types of participles in Latvian are present active, past active, future active, present passive, and past passive. They usually end in -š, -jis, -dams, -ts, or -ts respectively.