Voice
In Slovene, a verb can be used in 2 different voices: active (tvornik) and passive (trpnik). Only the active voice maintains a complete conjugation pattern for all the tenses. In Slovene, the passive voice is formed by using the verb biti (to be), appropriately conjugated, and the passive past participle in -en of the main verb or for reflexive verbs it is formed by adding -se to the end of a verb. Except for reflexive verbs, the passive voice is rarely used. An example of the passive voice is Izvoljen je bil za člana Kraljeve družbe (He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society). However, this is more commonly stated, using the active voice, as Izvolili so ga za člana Kraljeve družbe (They elected him a fellow of the Royal Society).
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Famous quotes containing the word voice:
“For soon amid the silver loneliness
Of night he lifted up his voice and sang,
Secure, with only two moons listening,”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
“My solitaria
Are the meditations of a central mind.
I hear the motions of the spirit and the sound
Of what is secret becomes, for me, a voice
That is my own voice speaking in my ear.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The only true madness is loneliness,
the monotonous voice in the skull
that never stops
because never heard.”
—John Montague (b. 1929)