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The Laid-Back Swedish Sentence – S-Passive! Posted by Marcus Cederström on Jan 30, 2014
We’ve written a bit about passive verbs here in the past (Where does the -s-passive come from?, Making active verbs passive in Swedish, Passive in Swedish), but it’s been a while, so I thought I would revisit the subject by focusing exclusively on the s-passive. First, the passive gets used quite a bit in newspaper…
Passive in Swedish Posted by Tibor on Oct 14, 2010
The passive structures are often used in the language of press, official documents and advertising. It is a comfortable and useful construction if you don´t want to point out the person who does the action or it is of unimportance for example: Han sköts ihjäl i parken, Gamla kläder bytes ej, Föremål bör ej ställas i…