B1 · Intermédiaire Chapitre 36

The Passive Voice

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Master the art of focusing on the action rather than the person performing it.

  • Identify when to use the passive voice in Latvian.
  • Construct passive sentences using the verb 'tikt'.
  • Transform active sentences into passive structures.
Shift the focus to the action itself.

Ce que tu vas apprendre

Forming the passive voice using 'tikt' or 'tikt' + participle. Learn to focus on the action rather than the doer.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

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    By the end you will be able to: create passive sentences to describe workplace or public events.

Conseils et astuces (1)

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Check the gender

Always check if your subject is masculine or feminine.
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Vocabulaire clé (5)

tikt to get / to be (passive auxiliary) uzcelt to build atrast to find paziņojums announcement process process

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newspaper

News Report

Review Summary

  • tikt (conjugated) + past passive participle

Erreurs courantes

Passive voice in Latvian with 'tikt' focuses on the action, not the agent. Do not use 'ar' to imply 'by'.

Wrong: Tilts ir celts ar strādniekiem.
Correct: Tilts tiek celts.

The participle should not take an ending that mimics a dative case; it must simply match the noun's gender.

Wrong: Māja tiek celtai.
Correct: Māja tiek celta.

You cannot keep the subject as the doer ('Viņš') in a passive sentence. The object becomes the subject.

Wrong: Viņš tiek uzcēla māju.
Correct: Māja tiek uzcelta.

Règles dans ce chapitre (1)

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Simple Passive with 'tikt'

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Next Steps

You've mastered the passive voice! This is a huge milestone in your B1 journey. Keep building those complex sentences!

Translate 5 news headlines into the passive voice.

Continue to: Present Participles

Pratique rapide (3)

Choose the correct participle.

Zupa tiek ___.

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: vārīta
Zupa is feminine singular.

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Fill in the correct form of 'tikt'.

Māja ___ celta.

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: tiek
Present tense required.

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Fix the sentence.

Find and fix the mistake:

Māja tiek celts.

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: Māja tiek celta
Gender agreement.

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Questions fréquentes (2)

No, only for actions where the subject is the receiver.
Look at the noun ending.
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