"passive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

passive adjetivo

passive + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 67
passive resistance • passive role • passive voice • passive investor • passive smoking • ...
2. passive role = bierna rola passive role
  • She assigned a passive role to herself, with the public being the force which would act on her.
  • The crowd, then, takes on a much more passive role.
  • All night long he had been cast in the passive role of the one who listened.
  • Richard seems to allow himself to be ordered into a passive role.
  • In this cultural development, the local inhabitants had only a passive role.
  • Here and elsewhere, however, architecture does not have to play a passive role.
  • This time, the man will be taking the passive role.
  • He had performed here many times in the past and the passive role was hard to take.
  • She took on a more passive role in recent years as senior editor.
  • Some older men may have at times preferred the passive role.
3. passive voice = strona bierna (w gramatyce) passive voice
4. passive investor = inwestor bierny passive investor
adverbio + passive
Kolokacji: 11
completely passive • relatively passive • largely passive • somewhat passive • purely passive • ...

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