Re: Active and Passive please help.

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From: "Almaran Dungeonmaster" <dungeonmaster@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: Active and Passive please help.


> Joe Hill  wrote
>
> > My language has no passive sentences.   I can't seem to translate it was
> called into and active sentence...
>
> Do you mean you want to convert the phrase "it was called" into an active
> phrase? It might be a little hard, since "to be called" in the current
> meaning is inherently passive in English. However, other languages have an
> active verb for naming things.
>
> E.g. in dutch, we use the verb "heten" to name things.
>
> "Ik heet Maarten"= "I am called Maarten"
>
> So all you have to do is invent a transitive verb in your language that
> means "being named".
>
> Maarten

No, but I can make one...

silly thinking in English...