Passive Voice

Question 1

What is the difference between Active and Passive Voice?

Answer 1

Active - when the subject is the acting person and the important part of an active sentence
Passive - when the action is important rather than the acting person, and the subject is not the acting person.

Question 2

How do you form the Passive Voice?

Answer 2

subject + werden + … + partizip II

Question 3

How do you change a sentence from Active to Passive?

Answer 3

The subject from the active becomes the passive object. The active object becomes the passive subject.

Question 4

What happens when the passive object is plural?

Answer 4

The verb must also become plural

Question 5

Make this sentence plural:
Der Kuchen wird gebacken

Answer 5

Zwei Kuchen werden gebacken

Question 6

What is the difference between these sentences?
- Der Kuchen wird gebacken
- Der Kuchen ist gebacken

Answer 6

The first sentence is transaction passive as there is the action of the cake being made.
The second sentence is state passive because there is the result/final state of the cake being made

Question 7

What are some substitute passive forms?

Answer 7

• some reflexive verbs
• fixed noun-verb connections
• sein + infinitive + zu
• bekommen
• kriegen

Question 8

Make the following sentence passive:
- Mein Verdacht hat sich bestätigt

Answer 8

Mein Verdacht wurde bestätigt

Question 9

Make the following sentence passive:
- Hunde sind anzuleinen

Answer 9

Hunde müssen angeleint werden

Question 10

Make the following sentence passive:
- Er hat das Fahrrad repariert bekommen

Answer 10

Ihm ist das Fahrradrepariert worden

Question 11

Make the following sentence passive:
- Er hat das Paket geschickt gekriegt

Answer 11

Ihm ist das Paket geschickt worden