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passive

grammatical voice common in many languages
Class type of: voice Q1194697

Facts

7 properties
Instance of
grammeme
Subclass of
voice[2]
Short name
PASS[6]
Entry in abbreviations table
tdew[7]
Main Wikidata property
P5560[5]
Opposite of
active[3]
Topic has template
Template:passive of[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en passive en passive voice en PASS ar مبني للمجهول ar البناء للمجهول ar الفعل المبني للمجهول ar فعل ما لم يسم فاعله ar فعل مبني للمجهول cs rod trpný cs trpný rod da passiv da lideform de Passivum es voz pasiva fa فعل مجهول fi passiivi fr voix passive he סביל hu szenvedő szerkezet id bentuk pasif
🔖 Identifiers · 16
OpenAlex ID
C2779824158
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/588
Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID
E0074513
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/passive-voice
Exact match
purl.org
Freebase ID
/m/0b6dwbj
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/1hc0hkl7s
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
passiv_-_grammatikk
ISOCAT ID
3.8k (1.3k–3.8k, n=3)
Lex ID
passiv
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2779824158
National Library of Latvia ID
000340631
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OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
6481
Quora topic ID
Passive-Voice
Topic's main category
Wikidata item
YSO ID
18258

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 1
grammeme
Opposite of 1
active
Subclass of 1
voice
Topic has template 1
Template:passive of
← Opposite of 1
active
← Template has topic 1
Template:passive of
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Summary

passive is a grammeme[1].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . eva.mpg.de. Retrieved . eva.mpg.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_passive_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{passive}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/passive}, note = {Accessed: 2026-11-03}}
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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 22d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    ISOCAT ID → 1346, 3375, 3839
    Sitelink count → 38
    Wikipedia languages → ['an', 'ar', 'bg', 'br', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'eu', 'fa', 'fi', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ ISOCAT ID: 3839, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7329056|passive form (#7329056)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Wikidata item
    Subclass of → —
    Opposite of → active
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ YSO ID: 18258, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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