Re: [romanceconlang] Passives

From: Padraic Brown (elemtilas@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat May 03 2003 - 10:14:00 EST


--- Adam Walker <carrajena@yahoo.com> wrote:

> What other ways are lurking out there? Which
> methods
> have you used in your langs? How does Arabic
> do it?

In addition to the more conventional Romance
forms, Kerno has a real passive in -teor (used
with a handfull of verbs anymore) and an
historical passive, but now impersonal in -eor.
So, fateor = it is said; feor = one says
(anciently, it must be said).

Padraic.

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Ories-si la Sulis couant goueniont y vathin, levont y vus des al trefoelea, levont y vrum
des y vagges; aie! mays couant levab-el il mew cords?
-- per tradicièn Quemrech

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