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The Italian passive voice: essere, venire and the si passivante
Turning active sentences into passive ones across different tenses.
In Italian: Forma passiva
The basic passive is essere plus the past participle, and the participle agrees with the subject: la lettera è stata scritta da Marco.
In simple tenses venire can replace essere to stress the action rather than the resulting state: la porta viene chiusa alle otto.
Everyday Italian often prefers the si passivante, which says the same thing more briefly and without naming an agent: si vendono case, qui si parla italiano.
La lettera ___ da Marco.
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