9 Examples of Active Sentences Turning into Passive in Indonesian

One of types of sentences is an active sentence. This sentence is a sentence in which the subject acts as the actor. This sentence itself is also classified as one of the types of sentences based on the subject. Active sentences can be changed into other sentences, namely passive sentences.

This sentence change is done by exchanging the roles of the subject and object. The subject which was originally at the beginning of the sentence and acted as the perpetrator, was then moved to the middle of the sentence (more precisely after the predicate) and changed its role as the victim. This sentence change is also marked by changing the affix in the predicate of the active sentence which was originally affixed me-, me-i, me-i, and the like, changed to di-, di-i, di-i, and its kind.

In addition, the change in active to passive sentences is also marked by the word by which is placed after the predicate of the passive sentence. Use of the word by it is optional, in the sense that it may or may not be used.

To better understand what this sentence change looks like, in this article, we will show some examples of the sentence change. The examples in question can be seen as follows!

Example 1:

• Mother had bought vegetables and cooking spices at the market this morning.
  • Vegetables and cooking spices have been purchased by Mother was at the market this morning.

Example 2:

• Yesterday, the police managed to arrest a syndicate of drug dealers.
  • Yesterday, a drug dealer syndicate was arrested by Police.

Example 3:

• Yesterday, uncle offered us an interesting job in Kemang area.
  • Yesterday, we were offered by uncle an interesting job in Kemang area.

Example 4:

• Father gave Joko an ontel bicycle on Joko's umpteenth day.
  • Joko was given by his father an ontel bicycle on Joko's umpteenth birthday.

Example 5:

• The drug dealer offered us one of his medicines, as we passed in front of him.
  • We were offered the drug dealer one of the drugs, when we passed in front of him.

Example 6:

• Father invited us all to vacation on the island of Bali on Sunday.
  • We were all invited by my father to take a vacation to the island of Bali on Sunday.

Example 7:

• Bu Ikoh was forced to sell the gold ring so that she could pay off the debts of her dead husband.
  • The gold ring had to be sold by Mrs. Ikoh so that she could pay off the debts of her dead husband.

Example 8:

• He had informed us of the man's whereabouts last night.
  • We have been notified byabout the man's whereabouts last night.

In this example, the word he in the form of a subject must be changed to a word his which can be affixed to the word by.

Example 9:

• I have advised that person several times, but that person still hasn't changed.
  • That person has been advised byme several times, but that person still hasn't changed.

Same as in example 8, wordI which in this example should be changed to my when converted into passive form.

Here are some examples sentence active turns into passive in language Indonesia. Hopefully it will be useful and able to add insight to all readers, both regarding the particular sentence, and language Indonesia in general.

If the reader wants to add reference about sentences, the reader can open the following articles, namely: examples of direct sentences are changed to indirect sentences; the characteristics of sentences in Indonesian; sentence elements in Indonesian; and basic sentence patterns and examples.