Passive voice

Synonyms for "passive voice" (17 found)

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Closest matches (4)

Noun(1 words)
academic language form
Adjective(1 words)
dutch passief

Strong matches (5)

Noun(4 words)
norwegian passivitetpassivepassive clausepassive construction
Adjective(1 words)
passive audience

Related words (8)

Noun(4 words)
passive formpassivespassivityspanish pasivo
Adverb(1 words)
passively
Adjective(1 words)
romanian pasivitate

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

3 entries
grammatical voicemorphosyntactic categoryvoice

More specific

2 entries
agentless passivestative passive

Collocations

6 entries
agentless passivedynamic passivepassive sentencepassive voice constructionpast participle formstative passive

Inflections

1 entries
passive voices

Derivations

5 entries

Antonyms

1 entries
active voice

Translations

81 translations across 50 languages.

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Afrikaans

2 entries
  • lydende vorm noun (grammatical term)
  • passief noun (grammatical term)

Albanian

1 entries
  • pësore noun (grammatical term)

Arabic

2 entries
  • صِيغَة مَجْهُول noun (grammatical term)
  • مَبْنِي مَجْهُول noun (grammatical term)

Armenian

1 entries
  • կրավորական սեռ noun (grammatical term)

Belarusian

3 entries
  • зале́жны стан noun (grammatical term)
  • пасы́ўны стан noun (grammatical term)
  • пасі́ўны стан noun (grammatical term)

Breton

1 entries
  • tu-gouzañv noun (grammatical term)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • паси́вен зало́г noun (grammatical term)
  • страда́телен зало́г noun (grammatical term)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 被動語態 /被动语态 noun (grammatical term)

Crimean Tatar

1 entries
  • etilgen derece noun (grammatical term)

Czech

2 entries
  • pasivum noun (grammatical term)
  • trpný rod noun (grammatical term)

Danish

2 entries
  • lideform noun (grammatical term)
  • passiv noun (grammatical term)

Dutch

2 entries
  • lijdende vorm noun (grammatical term)
  • passief noun (grammatical term)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • pasiva voĉo noun (grammatical term)

Estonian

2 entries
  • passiiv noun (grammatical term)
  • umbisikuline tegumood noun (grammatical term)

Finnish

1 entries
  • passiivi noun (grammatical term)

French

1 entries
  • voix passive noun (grammatical term)

Georgian

1 entries
  • ვნებითი გვარი noun (grammatical term)

German

4 entries
  • Leideform noun (grammatical term)
  • Leidensform noun (grammatical term)
  • Leidform noun (grammatical term)
  • Passiv noun (grammatical term)

Greek

1 entries
  • παθητική φωνή noun (grammatical term)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • passzívum noun (grammatical term)

Icelandic

2 entries
  • þolmynd noun (grammatical term)
  • þolmynd sagna noun (grammatical term)

Irish

1 entries
  • faí chéasta noun (grammatical term)

Italian

3 entries
  • diatesi passiva noun (grammatical term)
  • forma passiva noun (grammatical term)
  • passivo noun (grammatical term)

Japanese

3 entries
  • 受動態 noun (grammatical term)
  • 受身 noun (grammatical term)
  • 所相 noun (grammatical term)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • ырықсыз етіс noun (grammatical term)

Korean

1 entries
  • 수동태 noun (grammatical term)

Latin

2 entries
  • genus passivum noun (grammatical term)
  • passivum noun (grammatical term)

Latvian

2 entries
  • ciešamā kārta noun (grammatical term)
  • pasīvs noun (grammatical term)

Lithuanian

2 entries
  • neveikiamoji rūšis noun (grammatical term)
  • pasyvas noun (grammatical term)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • пасив noun (grammatical term)

Malay

1 entries
  • ragam pasif noun (grammatical term)

Malayalam

1 entries
  • കർമ്മണിപ്രയോഗം noun (grammatical term)

Mongolian

2 entries
  • үйлдэгдэх хэв noun (grammatical term)
  • ᠦᠢᠯᠡᠳᠦᠭᠳᠡᠬᠦ ᠬᠡᠪ noun (grammatical term)

Māori

1 entries
  • whakahāngū noun (grammatical term)

Norman

1 entries
  • passif noun (grammatical term)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • passiv noun (grammatical term)

Polish

1 entries
  • strona bierna noun (grammatical term)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • voz passiva noun (grammatical term)

Romanian

1 entries
  • diateză pasivă noun (grammatical term)

Russian

3 entries
  • пасси́в noun (grammatical term)
  • пасси́вный зало́г noun (grammatical term)
  • страда́тельный зало́г noun (grammatical term)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • guth fulangach noun (grammatical term)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • pàsīv noun (grammatical term)
  • trpno stanje noun (grammatical term)
  • па̀сӣв noun (grammatical term)
  • трпно стање noun (grammatical term)

Slovak

2 entries
  • pasívum noun (grammatical term)
  • trpný rod noun (grammatical term)

Slovene

1 entries
  • trpni način noun (grammatical term)

Spanish

1 entries
  • voz pasiva noun (grammatical term)

Swedish

2 entries
  • passiv form noun (grammatical term)
  • passivum noun (grammatical term)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • tinig-balintiyak noun (grammatical term)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • паси́в noun (grammatical term)
  • паси́вний стан noun (grammatical term)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • dạng bị động noun (grammatical term)

Welsh

1 entries
  • stâd oddefol noun (grammatical term)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The passive voice is sometimes criticized for de-emphasizing the actor.

Source: wiktionary

Many languages, including English, use auxiliary verbs in constructing the passive voice.

Source: wiktionary

Phrases such as officer-involved shooting are often criticized as examples of passive voice.

Source: wiktionary

On Saturday, in his first response to Charlottesville, Mr. Trump condemned the violence "on many sides." Then he lapsed into the passive voice, expressing, as he has before, a sense of futility that the divisions between Americans would ever be healed. "It's been going on for a long time in our country," he said.

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