Like German, Yiddish has a family of separable verbs. These are verb stems cooccurring with a particle that sometimes occurs as a prefix attached to the verb stem and sometimes as a separate word. The particle appears separate from the verb in the present tense, but is attached as a prefix in the infinitive and participle. For example, in אויסזאָגן ' 'to reveal', the particle אויס "oys" is attached to the verb; but in the present tense זאָגט אויס ' 'reveals', the particle appears as a separate word. In the past participle, the particle appears before the prefix "ge-", as in אויסגעזאָגט "" 'revealed'.