English
Noun
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passive voice
- (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.
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grammatical term
- Albanian: pësore (sq) f
- Arabic: صِيغَة مَجْهُول f (ṣīḡat majhūl), مَبْنِي مَجْهُول m (mabnī majhūl)
- Armenian: կրավորական սեռ (hy) (kravorakan seṙ)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 被動語態／被动语态 (bèidòng yǔtài), 被动语态 (bèidòng yǔtài)
- Crimean Tatar: etilgen derece
- Czech: trpný rod m, pasivum n
- Dutch: lijdende vorm (nl) m
- Esperanto: pasiva voĉo
- 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)
- Icelandic: þolmynd (is) f
- Italian: forma passiva f, passivo (it) m
- (deprecated template usage)
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- Japanese: 所相 (しょそう, shosō), 受動態 (ja) (じゅどうたい, judōtai), 受身 (うけみ, ukemi)
- Korean: 수동태 (ko) (sudongtae) (受動態 (ko))
- Latin: genus passivum, passivum
- Latvian: ciešamā kārta f
- Maori: whakahāngū
- Norman: passif m
- Norwegian: passiv (no)
- Polish: strona bierna (pl) f
- Portuguese: voz passiva (pt) f
- Romanian: diateză pasivă f
- Russian: страда́тельный зало́г (ru) m (stradátelʹnyj zalóg), пассив (ru) m (passiv), пасси́вный зало́г (ru) m (passívnyj zalóg)
- Scottish Gaelic: guth fulangach m
- Serbo-Croatian: pasiv (sh) m
- Slovak: trpný rod, pasívum
- Spanish: voz pasiva f
- Swedish: passivum (sv) n, passiv form c
- Tagalog: tinig-balintiyak
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