Re: [romanceconlang] Passives Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 22:06:51 +0300

From: Isaac Penzev (isaacp@ukr.net)
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 12:28:34 EST


Christophe Grandsire zhazdy:

> > What other ways are lurking out there? Which methods
> > have you used in your langs? How does Arabic do it [passive]?
>
> IIRC it has special conjugations for it, with different vowel patterns. But
> I can't remember exactly how it works.

It's |qatala| 'to write' vs. |qutila| 'to be written' for a strong verb, basic
stem.

~~~~~~Yitzik~~~~~~



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