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7. Was bringst du den Gastgebern?<br />

8. Die Professorin hat dem neuen Dozenten einen teuren Füller geschenkt.<br />

9. Der Torwart warf dem Stürmer den Ball.<br />

Dative objects in the passive voice<br />

When the object of a dative verb in an active <strong>sentence</strong> is placed in a passive voice <strong>sentence</strong>, the<br />

object must remain in the dative case. The subject of the passive <strong>sentence</strong> will be the optional<br />

pronoun es, thus conjugating werden with a third person singular subject:<br />

For example:<br />

dative object 1 werden 1 (es) 1 past participle passive <strong>sentence</strong><br />

Active voice: Man glaubt ihm nicht. People don’t believe him.<br />

Passive voice: Ihm wird nicht geglaubt. He isn’t believed.<br />

(Es wird ihm nicht geglaubt.)<br />

Active voice: Martin hat dem Mann gedankt. Martin thanked the man.<br />

Passive voice: Dem Mann ist von Martin The man was thanked by Martin.<br />

gedankt worden.<br />

As with other passive voice <strong>sentence</strong>s, the tense of werden in the passive <strong>sentence</strong> must be<br />

the tense of the verb in the active <strong>sentence</strong>, and that verb becomes a past participle in the passive<br />

voice <strong>sentence</strong>. If the verb glauben is in the past tense, the passive <strong>sentence</strong> becomes:<br />

Ihm wurde nicht geglaubt.<br />

He wasn’t believed.<br />

If glauben is in the present perfect tense, the passive <strong>sentence</strong> becomes:<br />

Ihm ist nicht geglaubt worden.<br />

If glauben is in the future tense, the passive <strong>sentence</strong> becomes:<br />

Ihm wird nicht geglaubt werden.<br />

He wasn’t (hasn’t been) believed.<br />

He won’t be believed.<br />

Übung<br />

16·5<br />

Rewrite the following passive <strong>sentence</strong>s in the missing tenses.<br />

1. Present Dem Professor wird von ihren Gedichten sehr imponiert.<br />

a. Past <br />

b. Present perfect <br />

c. Future <br />

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