born -- adjective or verb?

Born is both an adjective and the past participle of bear. Here it is the past participle, used in the standard passive voice construction for a birth. Nothing strange about that, just of restricted use.

Thanks! In fact, I had never thought of the existence of a sentence like "I bore him" with the meaning "I gave birth to him, " nor the kindred sentence, "I have born him." Had you?

Yes, I had, Voxxi-- that's my job.

Dictionary.com hasn't gotten it wrong; it has given definitions only for the adjective; the undefined participle is listed above.

Oh, OK, I guess if you are a midwife or an obstetrician, you use such sentences routinely. Pleased you were able to confirm my impression re. the word. My reading of what the dictionary says is not the same as yours, but ... no matter. I believe the question has been resolved and that is what counts. Cheers!

the word born is usually used as a verb "past tense and past participle of "bear" ; given birth to."

but it can also be used as an adjective .[Y]

I know! I always wonder that too!

Born is it a verb or adjective? When I'm saying I was born....

It is an irregular participial adjective (an adjective derived from a verb):

I will amaze you - You were amazed (Regular participial adjective)

I will frighten you - You were frightened (Regular participial adjective)

I will bear you - You were born (Irregular participial adjective)

What type of question we have to ask to find whether born , terrified are adjectives

For ex . We ask "what kind of" in adjective of quality

Grammar teacher here; I don't see how born, or borne, can be participle adjectives. As far as I'm concerned, it is purely a verb, unless you want to really stretch it into something like "of woman born" or 'waterborne disease'. If my class asked, I'd say it's pretty much solely used as a verb.