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===== Passive voice ===== | ===== Passive voice ===== | ||
In **Passive** voice the patient (receiver, underdoer) of an action expressed by verb becomes the subject of the sentence. | In **Passive** voice the patient (receiver, underdoer) of an action expressed by verb becomes the subject of the sentence. | ||
- | There are 4 ways of expressing passive voice in Nûrlâm. The //first// one is by adding passive voice marker //-âk-// before markers of tense; this is mostly done with passive past tense. | + | There are 4 ways of expressing passive voice in Nûrlâm: |
+ | - by adding passive voice marker //-âk-// before markers of verb' | ||
+ | - use the [[grammar_participle|participles]] for present and past tenses, this way should be used for so-called //stative// passive, describing the state or characteristic. | ||
+ | - using [[grammar_gerundive|gerundive]] for future tense similarly to participles. However direct translation of gerundives back from Nûrlâm to English will be passive infinitives with tone of intention or purpose. | ||
+ | - //active// [[syntax_impersonal|impersonal constructions]], | ||
+ | In first three variants the subject (= patient) is not marked with case ending (remains in Nominative case), the agent of action is put in [[case_instrumental|Instrumental case]] and thus strictly speaking becomes an [[syntax_adverbials|adverbial]] instead of object. | ||
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