Why do some words in the simple present end in -ed

I am helping two students with their English. They asked me why there is -ed at the end of some words in the simple present tense, e.g.

Are you married?

He is annoyed.

I am worried.

I wasn't sure how to answer this.


Those are adjectives and not verbs, in your cases. Many -ed past participles can also be used as adjectives.

married, severed, disembodied, averted, worried, shocked, injured, vandalized, greyed out, redacted, censored, pampered, allied, contrived,

and so on.