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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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