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Re: Passive voice

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Sunday, May 21, 2006, 14:05
I wrote:
>German can't, so it has to use different verb:
Rubbish! German can (I was confused by the word order):
> Er geht über die Brücke > he walks over the bridge
Über die Brücke wird gegangen. Though this sounds a bit weird.
> Wir sprechen über das Buch. > We talk about the book.
Über das Buch wird gesprochen. This sounds perfectly ok. So basically, ignore me, since this wasn't an answer to the original question... **Henrik