Re: Active and Passive please help.
| From: | Almaran Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 16, 2001, 20:15 |
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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
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