The participants are traditionally considered to fall within the categories of adjectives and verbs. In order to be more precise, the category of participants should be considered either as a hybrid category or as a dual category. In one case, the participants are not adjectives or verbs, but both at the same time, and in the other case the participants are sometimes the other. With this in mind, I will focus on identifying the category of participants based on their common properties in both languages. I will leave aside the differences, which are far from negligible [...]