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Re: [romanceconlang] Passives



Christophe Grandsire zhazdy:


> > What other ways are lurking out there?  Which methods
> > have you used in your langs?  How does Arabic do it [passive]?
>
> IIRC it has special conjugations for it, with different vowel patterns. But
> I can't remember exactly how it works.

It's |qatala| 'to write' vs. |qutila| 'to be written' for a strong verb, basic
stem.

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