Passive and Antipassive
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Quick guide to making passive and antipassive sentences
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1. Auxilaries
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3. Relative Clauses
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4. Word Order
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For a verb to be in either passive or antipassive voice, it must first be in its infinitive form. It then can take an additional argument. This argument is declined for dative or causal depending on whether it is passive or antipassive respectively.
ňan
eat.INFInfinitive (TAM)
non-tensed verb ši
3Third person (person)
neither speaker nor addressee.SGSingular (number)
one countable entity.CAUCausal (case)
'because (of)'
it eats; literally it causes eating
ňan
eat.INFInfinitive (TAM)
non-tensed verb sup
3Third person (person)
neither speaker nor addressee.SGSingular (number)
one countable entity.DATDative (case)
indirect object; recipient, beneficiary, location
it is eaten; literally it receives eating
The noun tends to go at the end of the sentence. (See this article about word order. (It hasn't been written yet; hold on. >.<)) ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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