German Passive Voice
The passive puts the action first and the person second. It is built with werden — and you’ll meet it in every news article and instruction.
5 lessons · a few minutes each
B1 · Intermediate
All B1 grammar →B2 · Upper intermediate
All B2 grammar →Other grammar topics
- Nouns & Articlesder, die, das, plurals and compound nouns
- Pronounsich, mich, mir — and when to say du or Sie
- VerbsConjugation, modal and separable verbs
- TensesPresent, perfect, past, future and Konjunktiv
- CasesNominative, accusative, dative, genitive
- PrepositionsWhich case each preposition takes
- AdjectivesEndings, comparative and superlative
- AdverbsWords for when, where and how
- Sentence StructureWord order, questions and negation
- Conjunctionsund, aber, weil, dass — and where the verb goes
- NumbersCounting, ordinals, prices and phone numbers
- Time & DatesTelling the time and saying the date