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Voice: voice

Voice

For Indo-European speakers, voice means mainly the active-(medio)-passive distinction. In other languages, other shades of verb meaning are categorized as voice. In Pomak all verb forms are marked by the Voice=Act feature except for those of the passive participles, which use the Voice=Pass feature.

Act: active voice

The subject of the verb is the doer of the action (agent), the object is affected by the action (patient).

Examples

Pass: passive voice

The subject of the verb is affected by the action (patient). The doer (agent) is either unexpressed or appears as an object of the verb.

Examples


Voice in other languages: [abq] [am] [arr] [bej] [bg] [ceb] [cs] [el] [eme] [en] [fi] [fr] [gn] [gub] [hu] [hy] [jaa] [ka] [ky] [myu] [qpm] [qtd] [quc] [ru] [sv] [tl] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj] [xcl]