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- "The ball was kicked by Fred." (as opposed to "Fred kicked the ball.")
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passive voice (usually uncountable, plural passive voices)
- (grammar) The form of a transitive verb in which its subject receives the action.
- The passive voice is sometimes criticized for de-emphasizing the actor. ["is ... criticized" is passive.]
- Many languages, including English, use auxiliary verbs in constructing the passive voice.
grammatical term
- Afrikaans: lydende vorm (af), passief (af)
- Albanian: pësore (sq) f
- Arabic: صِيغَة مَجْهُول f (ṣīḡat majhūl), مَبْنِي مَجْهُول m (mabnī majhūl)
- Armenian: կրավորական սեռ (hy) (kravorakan seṙ)
- Belarusian: зале́жны стан m (zaljéžny stan), пасі́ўны стан m (pasíŭny stan), пасы́ўны стан m (pasýŭny stan)
- Breton: tu-gouzañv m
- Bulgarian: страда́телен зало́г m (stradátelen zalóg), паси́вен зало́г m (pasíven zalóg)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 被動語態／被动语态 (zh) (bèidòng yǔtài)
- Crimean Tatar: etilgen derece
- Czech: trpný rod m, pasivum (cs) n
- Danish: passiv c, lideform c
- Dutch: lijdende vorm (nl) m, passief (nl) n
- Esperanto: pasiva voĉo
- Estonian: passiiv, umbisikuline tegumood
- Finnish: passiivi (fi)
- French: voix passive (fr) f
- Georgian: ვნებითი გვარი (vnebiti gvari)
- German: Leideform (de) f, Leidform f, Leidensform f, Passiv (de) n, Passivum n, Passivform f
- Greek: παθητική φωνή (el) f (pathitikí foní)
- Hungarian: passzívum (hu), (please verify) szenvedő igealak
- Icelandic: þolmynd (is) f
- Irish: faí chéasta f
- Italian: forma passiva f, passivo (it) m
- Japanese: 受動態 (ja) (じゅどうたい, judōtai), 受身 (ja) (うけみ, ukemi), 所相 (ja) (しょそう, shosō)
- Korean: 수동태(受動態) (ko) (sudongtae)
- Latin: genus passivum, passivum n
- Latvian: ciešamā kārta (lv) f, pasīvs m
- Lithuanian: neveikiamoji rūšis f, pasyvas m
- Macedonian: пасив m (pasiv)
- Malay: ragam pasif
- Malayalam: കർമ്മണിപ്രയോഗം (kaṟmmaṇiprayōgaṁ)
- Maori: whakahāngū
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: үйлдэгдэх хэв (üjldegdex xev)
- Mongolian: ᠦᠢᠯᠡᠳᠦᠭᠳᠡᠬᠦ
ᠬᠡᠪ (üiledüɣdekü keb)
- Norman: passif m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: passiv (no) m
- Polish: strona bierna (pl) f
- Portuguese: voz passiva (pt) f
- Romanian: diateză pasivă f
- Russian: страда́тельный зало́г (ru) m (stradátelʹnyj zalóg), пасси́в (ru) m (passív), пасси́вный зало́г (ru) m (passívnyj zalóg)
- Scottish Gaelic: guth fulangach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: па̀сӣв m, трпно стање n
- Roman: pàsīv (sh) m, trpno stanje n
- Slovak: trpný rod, pasívum n
- Slovene: trpni način m
- Spanish: voz pasiva f
- Swedish: passivum (sv) n, passiv form c
- Tagalog: tinig-balintiyak
- Ukrainian: паси́вний стан m (pasývnyj stan), паси́в (uk) m (pasýv)
- Vietnamese: dạng bị động
- Welsh: stâd oddefol f
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