passive voice

English

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

Noun

passive voice (usually uncountable, plural passive voices)

1. (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.

Antonyms

• active voice

Coordinate terms

• active voice
• antipassive voice
• mediopassive voice
• middle voice
• reflexive verb

Translations

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