The flowers are exported by the grower.
De bloemen worden
door de kweker geexporteerd.
De bloemen worden
door de kweker geexporteerd.
The book is written by a well-known author.
Het boek wordt door een
bekende schrijver geschreven.
Exercise 88. Rewrite the following sentences
in the Passive Voice. (in English)
in the Passive Voice. (in English)
- The students learn all the new words.
- In The Netherlands they
make good cheese.
- They pump the water out of the polders.
- The men
repair the roads.
- In Eindhoven they make the best TV's in the world.
- You must translate this sentence.
- The Dutch grow beautiful flowers.
(to grow - kweken)
- They send them to New York by plane.
- In the stores
they sell them the same morning.
- Everybody admires this product.
Exercise 89. Vertaal de bovenstaande zinnen
in het Nederlands.
in het Nederlands.
| [repair | repareren |
| road | weg |
| roads | wegen |
| the world | de wereld |
| to grow (flowers) | (bloemen) kweken |
| beautiful | prachtig |
| by (plane) | per (vliegtuig) |
| to sell | verkopen |
| the morning | de morgen |
| product | (het) produkt |
| everybody | iedereen |
| to admire | bewonderen] |
Exercise 90. Translate the passive sentences
into Dutch.
Adjectives formed from verbs: In order to change a verb into an adjective,
-ing is added to the verb in English, e.g.: to fly - a flying object;
to read - a reading person. The equivalent of -ing in Dutch is -d(e)
which is added to the infinitive: vliegen (to fly) - een vliegend voorwerp (object);
lezen - een lezende persoon.