actievormen
Actievormen refer to the grammatical forms used to express the active voice in many languages, most notably in Dutch and English. In the active voice the subject of a sentence performs the action expressed by the verb. The construction typically follows a subject‑verb‑object order, though variations occur in subordinate clauses or with fronting of objects for emphasis. The form of the verb is conjugated for tense, aspect, mood, person, and number, but the syntactic position of the subject remains before the verb in simple declarative sentences.
In Dutch, actievormen are marked primarily by word order rather than by inflection. The subject precedes the
Passive voice construction ('passies' or 'passieve vorm') contrasts with actievormen by placing the object of the