This document discusses the passive voice in Dutch grammar. It explains that in Dutch, the verbs "zijn" (to be) and "worden" (to become) are used to form the passive, similar to using "to be" and "to become" in English. However, in Dutch "worden" is used for ongoing actions in the simple tense, while "zijn" is used for completed actions in the perfect tense. This is different than in English, where "to be" is used for both. The document provides examples of forming the passive in Dutch using these auxiliary verbs.
This document discusses the passive voice in Dutch grammar. It explains that in Dutch, the verbs "zijn" (to be) and "worden" (to become) are used to form the passive, similar to using "to be" and "to become" in English. However, in Dutch "worden" is used for ongoing actions in the simple tense, while "zijn" is used for completed actions in the perfect tense. This is different than in English, where "to be" is used for both. The document provides examples of forming the passive in Dutch using these auxiliary verbs.
This document discusses the passive voice in Dutch grammar. It explains that in Dutch, the verbs "zijn" (to be) and "worden" (to become) are used to form the passive, similar to using "to be" and "to become" in English. However, in Dutch "worden" is used for ongoing actions in the simple tense, while "zijn" is used for completed actions in the perfect tense. This is different than in English, where "to be" is used for both. The document provides examples of forming the passive in Dutch using these auxiliary verbs.
This document discusses the passive voice in Dutch grammar. It explains that in Dutch, the verbs "zijn" (to be) and "worden" (to become) are used to form the passive, similar to using "to be" and "to become" in English. However, in Dutch "worden" is used for ongoing actions in the simple tense, while "zijn" is used for completed actions in the perfect tense. This is different than in English, where "to be" is used for both. The document provides examples of forming the passive in Dutch using these auxiliary verbs.
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The passive voice
By Bieneke Berendsen
In English we use the verbs to be or to become for the passive.
active passive I wash your hair your hair is washed (by me) he has cleaned the house the house has been cleaned (by him) the music excites me I am excited (by the music)
After the passive, we can always put the construction by + agent.
The passive is not a tense. A tense indicates the point in time an event occurred. The passive voice can take all tenses, e.g. the passive simple, passive perfect, passive pluperfect, etc.
Formation of the passive in Dutch
In Dutch, we use the same verbs:
:' ' ' ' Zijn (to be) and worden (to become) are irregular verbs. Just like in English, we use the past participle to form the passive. There is, however, one important difference. Just compare the English and Dutch phrases below.
English Auxiliary Dutch Auxiliary
verb verb My hair is washed to be Mijn haar wordt gewassen worden My hair was washed to be Mijn haar werd gewassen worden My hair has been washed to be Mijn haar is gewassen zijn My hair had been washed to be Mijn haar was gewassen zijn
Note that in English, we use 'is' and 'was' for the simple tense, whereas in Dutch, we use the exact same words for the perfect tense! In English, we use the same verb for both the simple and the perfect tenses (to be). In the examples above, we used 'to be'. In Dutch, on the other hand, we use two different verbs: worden and zijn.
Worden and zijn
Worden is used if the event is still going on at this particular moment. In English we would use the simple tense of to be, to become or, sometimes, to get. Zijn is used when we want to express that an event has already occurred or been done (perfect tense). In English, we would use the perfect tense of 'to be'.
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