Passiv erklärt: Vorgangs- vs. Zustandspassiv B1, B2, C1

Hello everyone! I am happy that you are here again. Today in this video it is about the topic of passive sentences. So this is a very important topic actually, so if you also have difficulties, then definitely stay with us. So let's go! To understand passive, you need to understand one thing well. What do I use the passive for? What is my goal? Why do I need it? To make this clear to you, I have now written down two sentences. Pay attention! The first sentence is, teacher, so me, explains to you, that's you, the passive. This is a sentence in the active, not in the passive. We also write that down, active. Why? For you it is important who does it. So the teacher is important to you. And what she does, she explains the passive. The passive is an object, so it is in the accusative, in an active sentence. The second sentence is our passive. The passive is explained to you. You see, it is no longer important for you who does it, but what is done. The action, the event, the process, that is important to you. That's why it's passive. And you see, here the passive was accusative and now it is the subject, so it is nominative. So what is the difference again? This is an active sentence, this is a passive sentence. Here it is important for you who does something. So the question is who? Here in the passive it is important for you what is done. And no longer who. And now again, you use the passive when the action, the event is important to you and you want to emphasize it. And not the person who does it. And now you ask yourself, so how do I use passive? In order to answer this question, you first need to understand that there are two types of passive. Namely, process passive and state passive. What is the difference? So you need the process passive when it comes to the process. You describe a process. For example, the passive is being learned by you right now. This is a process. So here it is about process passive, about the process. So for example, as we said, we can also write our example. So here it is about the process. With the state passive, it is no longer about the process, but about the state. So about the result of an action. Let's write that down. Result. The action is over. For example, the passive is learned. What is the difference? You can already do passive. You understood that. You know in which situation you use passive. Or which forms you need. You have made everything clear to yourself. Now you can do passive. So the passive is learned. Let's write that down too. As you can see again, the difference between the process passive and the state passive is that here the process is important to us and here the result. The passive is now being learned by you. That means you still have a few problems. You still have to figure out which forms to use. So you deal with it. And here, in this case, maybe in a few days, if you understood the passive correctly, if you use it correctly, then this story is completed. So the passive is learned. Yes! And now I want to tell you one thing. In the German language, you use the process passive, i.e. the passive where the process is important, much more often. And that's why I want to introduce you to the process passive in more detail today. For this we need different time forms, namely present, preterite, perfect and future tense. So the process passive is formed as follows. You always, always need the auxiliary verb to become. But this become changes depending on the time form. We'll take a look at that in a moment. Don't panic! Plus the verb in the third form. You already know what it is, I hope. Then we make it so clear to ourselves. And now let's look at the different time forms. And now I ask you to imagine that you are visiting a German course. And at the moment, so in the present tense. And that's why we form the process passive together. So a German course will be visited by you. Let's write that down. Yes, as you can see, that's really our formula. So will be visited. We could even underline that. So you have become in the right form and then visited. So it doesn't matter to you who does it, but actually this process, that the German course is now being visited. Yes, and now let's imagine that you visited your language course yesterday. And then we form which sentence? Try it yourself. You should form passive from become and then the verb in the third form. So a German course was visited yesterday. So as you can see, it has only changed to become. Yes, to became. So as in the past tense. So was visited. These two forms are relatively easy. So you should really only use this formula and then adapt to the time form. Become, so in the third person singular, is visited and was visited in the past tense. And you know, in the German language you can talk about the past either in the past tense or in the perfect tense. So you actually visited your German course yesterday, but you don't want to do that now with the help of the past tense, but with the help of perfect. So how would that sound? A German course was visited. I'll write that down. So a German course was visited yesterday. The form is, has been visited. So as you can see, we still have become in the corresponding form, as become, plus the verb in the third form, visited. But we also have the auxiliary verb to be, so is in the form. So how is the formula for past passive perfect? The following. You need the auxiliary verb to be plus the verb in the third form You have to remember that. This is the past passive perfect. Here is the auxiliary verb to always be. Always. There is no have. Only be. The third form. And always become. Always. There is no become. Became. No. Only become. Yes. And now imagine that you visit your language course tomorrow. So that means you want to express that in the past passive future. How will that be? Think about it for a moment. Maybe you already know that. So I'll say that first. A German course will be visited by you tomorrow. We'll write that down. Yes. So we have our become again. Yes. In the corresponding form. We have the verb in the third form. And we have the auxiliary verb from past passive perfect 1 become again in the corresponding form. That is, how is the formula now for past passive perfect 1? It is the following. This is become. But you have to adapt to the person. Yes. So it can also be become. Plus the verb in the third form. It's a bit similar. Plus become. As you can see, here was become. Here we have become. And always. That's relatively easy to remember. Here you have become. Because future is always formed with become. Then the verb in the third form. Always. And always become. Not become or not become or whatever. Always become. So reflect on that. And then it's easy. So now I think it's much clearer. So you can look at it again. And think about whether you understand everything. I even decided for you now to write the formula for past passive perfect 1 again. Even if I said you just have to adapt to become. That will be like this. Became. Or became. Plus the verb in the third form. Yes. This is past passive perfect 1. So. And now we want to summarize it all together and go through it again. At the beginning of this video we said in which situations we need the passive. That is of course when for us the action, i.e. the event, is important and not the person who does it. That was the first thing. The second thing you need to know is that there are two types of passive. So past passive on the one hand and state passive on the other. In the past passive we said is the process important. Maybe you still know the example. So. A German course is now being visited by me. Or the passive is now being explained to me. It does not matter who does it, but the process that it is now being explained to you. On the other hand, the state passive is really important to you. The passive is learned. Yes. It's done. I can do it now. It is no longer the process, but the result. Yes. The third thing. We have dealt with the forms of past passive. Why? Because I told you that in the German language is used very often. And these forms we want now go through again together. So look. Passive. Process passive. Not state passive. So. Present. Become. Plus the verb in the third form. Precedetum. Become. Plus the verb in the third form. Perfect. Be. Always be. No have. Plus the verb in the third form. Plus become. Become. And future tense. Become. Plus the verb in the third form. Plus become. Always. Yes. Always. No become. No whatever. Always become. Plus third form. And plus become. Yes. That is, as you can see, quite a lot. However, I have also marked for you here which forms of become where are used. So that's really not that hard. So basically that was it already. Actually, as you can see, it's not that hard. Even if there are quite a few forms. And now I would like to ask you maybe to take a pen and a piece of paper and to check for yourself whether you have understood everything. I will now give you a sentence in the active. Yes. That is, for example. This is a sentence in the active present. Yes. I am now asking you to use this sentence to form a past passive. And in all forms of time. Yes. In all. And please write that in the comments. And I will definitely check that for you and then give my feedback. So good luck. Thank you very much for watching. I was really happy that you were there. Yes. If you liked it, then I would be happy if you also subscribe to my channel, of course. And yes, as always. Good luck learning more German. And we'll see you in the next video. Bye.