Everyday passives

The passive verbs you'll actually hear - stolen, hit, injured, paid

These five come up constantly, because they are the things people report happening to them without knowing or caring who did it.

Keywords

"انْصَدَم" is about you, not about a thing. It's what you say when news knocks the wind out of you.

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انْبَنى
Weak verbs in the passive/ The passive
The passive of verbs ending in ى - built, cancelled, grilled, fried
advanced / grammar
مَصدَر
What a masdar is/ The verbal noun
The noun that lives inside every verb, and where you use it
advanced / grammar
مَشِي
After prepositions and modals/ The verbal noun
Where the masdar earns its keep - after بعد, قبل, بدون and بحب
advanced / grammar
اشْتِغال
Masdars of longer verbs/ The verbal noun
What happens to the masdar when the verb is longer than three letters
advanced / grammar