Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
The form of a transitive verb in which its subject receives the action.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
Examples
- The passive voice is sometimes criticized for de-emphasizing the actor.
- Many languages, including English, use auxiliary verbs in constructing the passive voice.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Any writing which obscures the identity of the perpetrator of an action, regardless of whether the sentence uses the passive form of a verb.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: proscribed, uncountable, usually
Examples
- Phrases such as officer-involved shooting are often criticized as examples of passive voice.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- `The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice
- `The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: passive
Antonyms: active voice
Broader terms: voice
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
81 source translations are retained for this English entry.
-
Afrikaans:
lydende vorm
— grammatical term
-
Afrikaans:
passief
— grammatical term
-
Albanian:
pësore
— grammatical term
-
Arabic:
صِيغَة مَجْهُول
(ṣīḡat majhūl)
— grammatical term
-
Arabic:
مَبْنِي مَجْهُول
(mabnī majhūl)
— grammatical term
-
Armenian:
կրավորական սեռ
(kravorakan seṙ)
— grammatical term
-
Belarusian:
зале́жны стан
(zaljéžny stan)
— grammatical term
-
Belarusian:
пасі́ўны стан
(pasíwny stan)
— grammatical term
-
Belarusian:
пасы́ўны стан
(pasýwny stan)
— grammatical term
-
Breton:
tu-gouzañv
— grammatical term
-
Bulgarian:
страда́телен зало́г
(stradátelen zalóg)
— grammatical term
-
Bulgarian:
паси́вен зало́г
(pasíven zalóg)
— grammatical term
-
Chinese Mandarin:
被動語態 /被动语态
(bèidòng yǔtài)
— grammatical term
-
Crimean Tatar:
etilgen derece
— grammatical term
-
Czech:
trpný rod
— grammatical term
-
Czech:
pasivum
— grammatical term
-
Danish:
passiv
— grammatical term
-
Danish:
lideform
— grammatical term
-
Dutch:
lijdende vorm
— grammatical term
-
Dutch:
passief
— grammatical term
-
Esperanto:
pasiva voĉo
— grammatical term
-
Estonian:
passiiv
— grammatical term
-
Estonian:
umbisikuline tegumood
— grammatical term
-
Finnish:
passiivi
— grammatical term
-
French:
voix passive
— grammatical term
-
Georgian:
ვნებითი გვარი
(vnebiti gvari)
— grammatical term
-
German:
Leideform
— grammatical term
-
German:
Leidform
— grammatical term
-
German:
Leidensform
— grammatical term
-
German:
Passiv
— grammatical term
-
German:
Passivum
— grammatical term
-
German:
Passivform
— grammatical term
-
Greek:
παθητική φωνή
(pathitikí foní)
— grammatical term
-
Hungarian:
passzívum
— grammatical term
-
Icelandic:
þolmynd
— grammatical term
-
Icelandic:
þolmynd sagna
— grammatical term
-
Irish:
faí chéasta
— grammatical term
-
Italian:
diatesi passiva
— grammatical term
-
Italian:
forma passiva
— grammatical term
-
Italian:
passivo
— grammatical term
-
Japanese:
受動態
(judōtai)
— grammatical term
-
Japanese:
受身
(ukemi)
— grammatical term
-
Japanese:
所相
(shosō)
— grammatical term
-
Kazakh:
ырықсыз етіс
(yryqsyz etıs)
— grammatical term
-
Korean:
수동태
(sudongtae)
— grammatical term
-
Latin:
genus passivum
— grammatical term
-
Latin:
passivum
— grammatical term
-
Latvian:
ciešamā kārta
— grammatical term
-
Latvian:
pasīvs
— grammatical term
-
Lithuanian:
neveikiamoji rūšis
— grammatical term
-
Lithuanian:
pasyvas
— grammatical term
-
Macedonian:
пасив
(pasiv)
— grammatical term
-
Malay:
ragam pasif
— grammatical term
-
Malayalam:
കർമ്മണിപ്രയോഗം
(kaṟmmaṇiprayōgaṁ)
— grammatical term
-
Māori:
whakahāngū
— grammatical term
-
Mongolian:
үйлдэгдэх хэв
(üjldegdex xev)
— grammatical term
-
Mongolian:
ᠦᠢᠯᠡᠳᠦᠭᠳᠡᠬᠦ ᠬᠡᠪ
(üiledügdekü keb)
— grammatical term
-
Norman:
passif
— grammatical term
-
Norwegian Bokmål:
passiv
— grammatical term
-
Polish:
strona bierna
— grammatical term
-
Portuguese:
voz passiva
— grammatical term
-
Romanian:
diateză pasivă
— grammatical term
-
Russian:
страда́тельный зало́г
(stradátelʹnyj zalóg)
— grammatical term
-
Russian:
пасси́в
(passív)
— grammatical term
-
Russian:
пасси́вный зало́г
(passívnyj zalóg)
— grammatical term
-
Scottish Gaelic:
guth fulangach
— grammatical term
-
Serbo-Croatian:
па̀сӣв
— grammatical term
-
Serbo-Croatian:
трпно стање
— grammatical term
-
Serbo-Croatian:
pàsīv
— grammatical term
-
Serbo-Croatian:
trpno stanje
— grammatical term
-
Slovak:
trpný rod
— grammatical term
-
Slovak:
pasívum
— grammatical term
-
Slovene:
trpni način
— grammatical term
-
Spanish:
voz pasiva
— grammatical term
-
Swedish:
passivum
— grammatical term
-
Swedish:
passiv form
— grammatical term
-
Tagalog:
tinig-balintiyak
— grammatical term
-
Ukrainian:
паси́вний стан
(pasývnyj stan)
— grammatical term
-
Ukrainian:
паси́в
(pasýv)
— grammatical term
-
Vietnamese:
dạng bị động
— grammatical term
-
Welsh:
stâd oddefol
— grammatical term
