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The Passive Voice in Everyday Italian – HearSay

Italian B2

Refine your Italian on the go through targeted listening and speaking practice all about the passive voice. Discover how to express processes, states, and necessities fluently and naturally.

Lessons

Describing states with essere
Learn how to use the auxiliary verb "essere" to describe completed actions and ongoing states.
Vocabulary
- il dipinto (das Gemälde)
- il capolavoro (das Meisterwerk)
- restaurare (restaurieren)
- esporre (ausstellen)
- la mostra (die Ausstellung)
- inaugurare (eröffnen)
- ammirare (bewundern)
Objectives
- Zustände von Objekten beschreiben
- Das Passiv in der Vergangenheit bilden
Emphasizing processes with venire
Use the auxiliary verb "venire" to focus on the pure process of an action in simple tenses.
Vocabulary
- la merce (die Ware)
- consegnare (liefern)
- i dati (die Daten)
- elaborare (verarbeiten)
- il progetto (das Projekt)
- finanziare (finanzieren)
- approvare (genehmigen)
- il cantiere (die Baustelle)
Objectives
- Handlungsabläufe im Präsens betonen
- Das Passiv mit venire anwenden
Expressing necessities with andare
Use "andare" to elegantly express obligations and things that must be done in Italian.
Vocabulary
- il modulo (das Formular)
- compilare (ausfüllen)
- la regola (die Regel)
- rispettare (einhalten)
- la scadenza (die Frist)
- posticipare (verschieben)
- le tasse (die Steuern)
- assolutamente (unbedingt)
Objectives
- Verpflichtungen im Büro formulieren
- Notwendigkeiten unpersönlich ausdrücken
Naming the agent with da
Find out how to elegantly integrate the agent of a passive action into the sentence using the preposition "da".
Vocabulary
- il comitato (der Ausschuss)
- l'indagine (die Untersuchung)
- il comunicato (die Mitteilung)
- pubblicare (veröffentlichen)
- il portavoce (der Sprecher)
- la fonte (die Quelle)
- confermare (bestätigen)
- smentire (dementieren)
Objectives
- Den Akteur einer Handlung benennen
- Aktiv- in Passivsätze umwandeln
The impersonal si passivante
Master the "si passivante", the most natural and frequently used alternative to the classic passive in Italian.
Vocabulary
- il dialetto (der Dialekt)
- il patrimonio (das Erbe)
- conservare (bewahren)
- i prodotti locali (die lokalen Produkte)
- esportare (exportieren)
- il territorio (das Gebiet)
- tramandare (überliefern)
- l'usanza (der Brauch)
Objectives
- Allgemeine Aussagen formulieren
- Das si passivante im Alltag nutzen

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