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Passiv (Präsens und Präteritum)
Like the English passive, the German passive (Passiv) puts the action rather than the doer in the foreground. It is used very often in formal texts, instructions, scientific explanations and the news — because in these contexts what matters is not 'who did it' but 'what is/was done'.
INTRODUCTION
Like the English passive, the German passive (Passiv) puts the action rather than the doer in the foreground. It is used very often in formal texts, instructions, scientific explanations and the news — because in these contexts what matters is not 'who did it' but 'what is/was done'.
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