{"id":2070,"date":"2010-10-14T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2010-10-14T08:03:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T08:03:44","slug":"passive-in-swedish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/passive-in-swedish\/","title":{"rendered":"Passive in Swedish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The passive structures are often used in the language of press, official documents and advertising. It is a\u00a0comfortable and useful construction if you don\u00b4t want to point out the person who does the action or it is of unimportance for example: Han sk\u00f6ts ihj\u00e4l i parken, <em>Gamla kl\u00e4der bytes ej, F\u00f6rem\u00e5l b\u00f6r ej st\u00e4llas i trappuppg\u00e5nen, L\u00e4genhet uthyres i andra hand.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0First of all we have to clarify the differences between an active and a passive sentence.<\/p>\n<p>ACTIVE:<\/p>\n<p>eng.<em> Strindberg has written The\u00a0red room.<\/em>\u00a0 sv. <strong><em>Strindberg<\/em><\/strong><em> har skrivit R\u00f6da Rummet.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Passive with -s<\/em> that stresses the importance of the action<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>(<\/em>Note that Strindberg is the active person here but in the passive example we highlight the importance of the book so the\u00a0<strong>subject<\/strong> of the active sentence i.e. <strong>Strindberg<\/strong> becomes the object of the passive sentence<em>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PASSIVE:<\/p>\n<p>sv. <em>R\u00f6da rummet har skrivit<strong>s<\/strong> av Strindberg. <\/em>(The passive suffix is an -s in Swedish)<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">INFINITIV<\/td>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0PRESENS<\/td>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0PRETERITUM AKA. IMPERFEKT<\/td>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0SUPINUM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">1. arbeta<strong>s<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0arbeta<strong>s<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0arbetade<strong>s<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0arbetat<strong>s<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">2a. st\u00e4nga<strong>s<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0st\u00e4ng<strong>s*<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0st\u00e4ngde<strong>s<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0st\u00e4ngt<strong>s<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">2b. k\u00f6pa<strong>s<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0k\u00f6p<strong>s*<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0k\u00f6pte<strong>s<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0k\u00f6pt<strong>s<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">3. sy<strong>s<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0sy<strong>s<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0sydde<strong>s<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0sytt<strong>s<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">4. skriva<strong>s<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0skriva<strong>s<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0skrev<strong>s<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0skrivit<strong>s<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>*The vowel disappears in front of the suffix in group 2.<\/p>\n<p>OTHER PASSIVE STRUCTURES:<\/p>\n<p>Other passive structures are also possible;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Passive with <em>bli + Perfekt particip <\/em>that stresses the importance of the change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>sv. Hon <em>blev r\u00e5nad<\/em> p\u00e5 sina v\u00e4rdesaker. eng. She was\/got robbed of her belongings.<\/p>\n<p>sv. Carsten blev anst\u00e4lld 2008. eng. Carsten was hired 2008.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Passive with <em>vara + Perfekt particip<\/em> that stresses the importance of the result.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>sv. F\u00f6nstret \u00e4r m\u00e5lat. eng. The window is painted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Homework to do:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>From active to passive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vi \u00e5teranv\u00e4nder papper &#8211; , Han har f\u00f6rf\u00f6ljt den underliga grannen. &#8211; , Eva har l\u00e4st den h\u00e4r intressanta romanen. &#8211; , Vi l\u00e5ser porten under lunchtid. &#8211; , M\u00e5nga kritiserar polisen. -,<\/p>\n<p><strong>From passive to active<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Byggnaden grundades 1940.-, Kyrkan har invigits av Karl XVI Gustav.-, Papperskorgen t\u00f6mdes tv\u00e5 g\u00e5nger i veckan.-, Huset har nyligen renoverats av min farbror.-, V\u00e5ra anst\u00e4llda kommer att s\u00e4gas upp.-,<\/p>\n<p><strong>From s-passive to bli+particip<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>En ung man skadades allvarligt under paraden.-, Han m\u00f6rdades under sin semester.-, Min moster lades in p\u00e5 sjukhuset i fredags.-, Den skilde mannen har utvistas fr\u00e5n Brasilien.-, Heml\u00e4xan kontroleras av l\u00e4raren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The passive structures are often used in the language of press, official documents and advertising. It is a\u00a0comfortable and useful construction if you don\u00b4t want to point out the person who does the action or it is of unimportance for example: Han sk\u00f6ts ihj\u00e4l i parken, Gamla kl\u00e4der bytes ej, F\u00f6rem\u00e5l b\u00f6r ej st\u00e4llas i&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/passive-in-swedish\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8440,8305,11857,11858,3446],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-grammar","tag-active","tag-passive","tag-passive-in-swedish","tag-perfekt-particip","tag-swedish"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions\/2099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}