passivitetit
Passivitetit is a Finnish term used to refer to multiple, field-dependent manifestations of passivity. In linguistics, passivity is a grammatical and semantic category in which the subject undergoes the action rather than performs it. Passivitetit here describe the range of ways languages encode passivity—morphological passive forms, periphrastic constructions, and impersonal clauses—all aimed at de-emphasizing or omitting the agent. Finnish, like many languages, uses a dedicated passive construction that allows statements about actions or states without naming the agent, and this interacts with tense, aspect, and negation.
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Overall, passivitetit indicates that the concept of passivity manifests differently across domains. Understanding its sense requires