passive voice

See also: passive-voice

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passive voice

Examples
"The ball was kicked by Fred." (as opposed to "Fred kicked the ball.")

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

Albanian: pësore (sq) f
Arabic: صِيغَة مَجْهُول‎ f (ṣīḡat majhūl), مَبْنِي مَجْهُول‎ m (mabnī majhūl)
Armenian: կրավորական սեռ (hy) (kravorakan seṙ)
Breton: tu-gouzañv m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 被動語態, 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
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)