Questions tagged [voz-pasiva]

Construcción gramatical que presenta al sujeto como paciente o pasivo. Gramatical construct in which the subject in acted upon.

Construcción gramatical en la que el sujeto es el recipiente de la acción:

El premio fue entregado.

La casa fue vendida.

Habitualmente convierte un verbo transitivo en intransitivo, que tendrá un único argumento posible que es el agente que realiza la acción.

Grammatical construct in which the subject is acted upon, as opposed of doing or being.

The prize was given.

The house was sold.

Usually it transforms a transitive verb into an intransitive one, with one agent that performs the action.

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When should I use the pure passive voice in Spanish? ( fue/fueron [past participle] )

I know Spanish often avoids the passive voice by using the active instead or 'se' to change the subject of the sentence, but when do Spanish speakers use the 'pure' passive with `fue/fueron [past-participle]? When it the passive voice appropriate to…
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Passive voice - have been studied?

If I want to say "these things have been studied" would I use passive voice, as in "se han estudiado?"
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Past passive form of "Godzilla ha comido el hombre"

Objective Clarify how to make the past form of "El hombre se ha come por Godzilla" (The man has been eaten by Godzilla). Background As a practice, tried to make the past passive form of "Godzilla ha comido el hombre" (Godzilla has eaten the…
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"se ha" (has been) What is the origin of "se" and what is the origin of "ha"?

I came across it in Memrise app and found no more information about it in the app, googled for it some, but found nothing reasuring. (I had no idea which tag to put.) Thanks for your time.
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