THE past participle of a regular Spanish verb is formed by changing the ending “er” or “ir” to “ido,” and the ending “ar” to “ado.” So what’s the past participle of “tarantar?”

A naughty Spanish professor once asked this question to one of his college students and the latter dutifully applied the rule of changing “ar” to “ado.” The student should have been correct except for the fact that there’s no such Spanish infinitive as “tarantar.”

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