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PASSIVE
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Traducere în limba română
passive I. adjectiv
1. pasiv; inert, inactiv: supus, răbdător.
2. (gram.) pasiv.
3. (ec.) fără procente, fără dobânzi.
passive II. substantiv
(gram.) pasiv; diateza pasivă.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
A week had passed in this way, and no suspicion of it conveyed by her quiet passive manner, when she was found one morning by her cousin Edmund, the youngest of the sons, sitting crying on the attic stairs.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
But he slept—let me think of him so again—as I had often seen him sleep at school; and thus, in this silent hour, I left him. —Never more, oh God forgive you, Steerforth! to touch that passive hand in love and friendship.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)