What is it?
A 'normal' active sentence would sound: drengen spiser æblet (the boy is eating the apple). Changing that into passive it becomes: æblet spises af drengen (the apple is eaten by the boy).
The Rules
#1: [verb] +s af
or
#2: bliver [verb participle] af
Examples
Present Tense |
Active
|
Passive #1 |
Passive #2 |
drengen spiser æblet
|
æblet spises af drengen
|
æblet bliver spist af drengen
|
the boy is eating the apple
|
the apple is eaten by the boy
|
the apple gets eaten by the boy
|
Past Tense |
Active
|
Passive #1 |
Passive #2 |
drengen spiste æblet
|
æblet spistes af drengen
|
æblet blev spist af drengen
|
the boy ate the apple
|
the apple was eaten by the boy
|
the apple got eaten by the boy
|
Present Perfect |
Active
|
Passive #1 |
Passive #2 |
drengen har spist æblet
|
n/a
|
æblet er blevet spist af drengen
|
the boy has eaten the apple
|
the apple has been eaten by the boy
|
[lit: the apple has gotten eaten by the boy]
|
Past Perfect |
Active
|
Passive #1 |
Passive #2 |
drengen havde spist æblet
|
n/a
|
æblet var blevet spist af drengen
|
the boy ate the apple
|
the apple had been eaten by the boy
|
the apple had gotten eaten by the boy
|