{"id":136115,"date":"2023-04-24T21:21:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T01:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/learn\/spanish-passive-voice\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T23:36:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T04:36:45","slug":"spanish-passive-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/spanish\/spanish-passive-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Passive Voice in Spanish (Including Examples)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Spanish passive voice is a type of sentence structure where the subject\u00a0receives<\/em> the action instead of\u00a0doing<\/em> the action. In a passive-voice sentence, the condition is more important than who performs the verb.<\/p>\n

If this sounds a bit confusing, no worries. The Spanish passive voice is much easier than you probably think.\u00a0So in this post, you’ll learn what the passive voice in Spanish is, how to use it, when to use it (and when not to) and more.<\/p>\n

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What is the Passive Voice?<\/h2>\n

To understand the passive voice, we first need to know the difference between the active and the passive voices.<\/p>\n

The active voice<\/strong> (both in Spanish and English) is the most common way we express ourselves. <\/strong>When we say or write a sentence using the active voice, we have a subject that does an action to an object.<\/p>\n

Take a look at these two active voice sentences:<\/p>\n

Yo escrib\u00ed estas cartas.<\/em> (I wrote these letters.)<\/p>\n

Mi hermana est\u00e1 cocinando sopa.<\/em> (My sister is cooking some soup.)<\/p>\n

In the passive voice, the sentence has the same nouns and actions, but their roles are different.<\/p>\n

See how these sentences are structured slightly different from the first two:<\/p>\n

Estas cartas fueron escritas por m\u00ed.<\/em> (These letters were written by me.)<\/p>\n

La sopa est\u00e1 siendo cocinada por mi hermana.<\/em> (The soup is being cooked by my sister.)<\/p>\n

The direct objects of the active sentences (estas cartas<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0sopa<\/em>) are now the subjects<\/strong> of the passive ones. We’ve also made some verb changes, but you’ll learn more about that in the following section. You can also see this concept in use by native Spanish speakers on the FluentU program<\/a>.

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