Dictionary entry

Passive voice

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

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Definition

passive /'pæsÇv/ adj ၁။ ျပဳသမွ်ႏုေသာ။ မလႈပ္မယွက္ေနေသာ။ မတုန္မလႈပ္ေသာ။ play a passive role in a marriage ❍ a passive observer of events ❍ passive obedience/acceptance ❍ His passive face concealed a deep anger. ၂။ ( grammar ) ကမၼကာရက (ႀကိယာ၊ ႀကိယာပုဒ္စု၊ ဝါက်ပံုစံ)။ သာဓကအားျဖင့္- Her leg was broken ႏွင့္ He was bitten by a dog. Compare ACTIVE n (also passive voice ) [sing] ( grammar ) ကမၼကာရက ႀကိယာ၊ ပုဒ္စု၊ ဝါက်။ In the sentence ‘He was seen there’, ‘was seen’ is in the passive. Compare active n ❏ passively adv မတုန္မလႈပ္။ မလႈပ္မယွက္။ တုဏိွေဘာ။ ❏ passiveness (also passivity /pæ'sÇvǝti/) n [U] မတုန္မလႈပ္ျခင္း။ ❏ passive resistance n [U] အႏုနည္းျဖင့္ ေတာ္လွန္ျခင္း။ ❏ passive smoking n [U] ေဆးလိပ္မေသာက္ဘဲ ဝန္းက်င္ေဆးလိပ္ေသာက္သူတို႔၏ေဆးလိပ္ေငြ႕မ်ားကို ႐ႉ႐ိႈက္ရျခင္း။

Examples

  1. A helpless and passive victim
  2. Watching television is a relatively passive activity.