Re: Active and Passive please help.

Joe Hill wrote:
>AAAARRRGGGHHH!!!
>
>My language has no passive sentences.   I can't seem to translate it was
>called into and active sentence...
We-ell, Tairezazh doesn't have a passive either, and this've never been a
problem. Then, Tairezazh transitive verbs don't require a subject, so you
can get much the same effect as English "he was killed" by saying _staksek
senos_, lit "killed him". Perhaps you could use a similar system?

                                             Andreas

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