Italian Course Beginner Series 62: The Passive Form Video Lecture | Learn Italian Language: For Beginners and Travellers

hello my name is Claudio and welcome to
another Italian tutorial today we
covered the passive form la forma
bathsheba in italian now there's no much
to say because it's very similar if not
exactly the same to the one in English
so what are you do in English when you
want to transform a sentence from active
to passive so let's say they we have the
active sentence I eat an apple and we
want to reverse the action so basically
the apple so in this case I'm carrying
out the action of eating an apple we
want the Apple to be carrying out the
action of being eaten by me so we
reverse it and we say an apple is eaten
by me so what have we done we started
with the verb to eat in the present
tense and we basically replaced the verb
to eat with the verb to be and then we
have the past participle of the verb to
eat after the verb to be okay so an
apple is eaten by me and of course
subject and object swap what do you do
in Italian exactly the same thing so you
have your subject first then you have
your verb to be conjugated in the
present tense and then you have the verb
that you want in the past participle how
do you make the past participle in
Italian well it's very easy let's say
they we want to say I am eaten so we
need the subject here then the verb to
be so no conjugated in the first person
singular and then we need the past
participle of the verb to eat now the
verb to eat is man Giada we look at the
ending and we realize that it's an added
type verb so what do we do with this
verb we take off the ending
we pick the verb and place it right here
and here we are we have the past
participle of the verb to eat Mankato so
we can pick it up and put it right here
so I am eaten you so know Mankato now
the past participle in Italian is very
easy and this table contains all the
information you need to make it however
it's not like the gerund the gerund is
like eating going driving and it's case
number sensitive meaning if I was a girl
instead of saying io sono Mankato I
should say io sono man ja da so you have
to change the ending according to the
gender if it's masculine or feminine and
also according to its plurality so if
it's singular or plural if it's we are
eaten no siamo man ja t if we are men if
we are women
then noise Jia mo man jati and of course
the rule for the endings are the same
rules for the gender in Italian so you
have o for masculine singular e
for masculine plural ah for feminine
singular and it for feminine plural so
you have to keep track of a few things
in here so to make the passive form and
use it appropriately in Italian what you
have to do is first of all you have to
make the past participle so you have to
keep into account what kind of verb you
have if it's an error type VirB edit
type verb or here that type of that will
basically affect the different ending
and then the very last letter will also
be according to the gender and the
number of the person in question so if
it's him then it would be oh if it's her
it would be ah if it's them it would be
either I or II depending on whether
we're talking about men or women now you
know everything about the passive form
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