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Indonesian Passive Voice

DavidMoeljadi

The passive voice is very frequent in Indonesian, much more frequent than in English. In English the frequency is estimated at about 4-5% in the input to children, but in Indonesian it is estimated between 28-35% (The Acquisition of Passive Voice in English and Indonesian).

See Transitive verbs and Voice in Indonesian.

Passive type one

Passive type two

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