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What type of construction is verb+"se", like in the word "veíase"?
En el español literario, es algo más frecuente encontrar enclisis, o el posicionamiento de un pronombre átono después del verbo (y en tal caso, se escribe junto al verbo, tildando si es necesario). ...
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Differences between "passive se" and "impersonal se"
Impersonal "se" and passive "se" work almost the same way, except for what you have already mentioned. So yes, your summary is perfectly correct. The difference between both is ...
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¿"Se ha explorado" o "Se han explorado"?
Me gustaría completar la respuesta de Mauricio con un buen artículo que habla de las vacilaciones en la concordancia en este tipo de construcciones y que presenta las posturas de distintos gramáticos, ...
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¿"Se ha explorado" o "Se han explorado"?
Complementando la respuesta de @FGSUZ, la RAE habla en esta página al respecto. Para los casos en que se pueda presentar confusión sobre si se trata de oración pasiva refleja u oración impersonal se ...
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Are there any rules governing when you can and cannot use a present tense form of "ser" + a past participle to form a passive sentence?
"ser" + past participle in the present tense can be used in any passive context where the present is allowed. The difference with "estar" + past participle is that the former will indicate the process,...
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Is there any historical background to the avoidance of the passive in Spanish?
The short answer is no. Why? because the fact that is less common is not the same as being avoided. Instead, it only means that is used on a reduced set of situations and not always on every day ...
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How do you conjugate verbs in passive voice in Spanish and how do you make passive infinitives?
You don't really want us to fill in all your conjugations, do you?
Passive in Spanish is similar to English. Just conjugate the ser verb and add the participle visto (or vistos if plural, or vista/...
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What exactly are the "passive se" and "impersonal se"?
First of all, the formerly named reflexive verbs are denominated now as pronominal verbs. About pronominal verbs, you can read this answer of mine. You are interested in the role played by the word se:...
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Is the passive or impersonal "se" being used in "Todavía no se sabe cuán grandes serán las pérdidas"?
This is an ambiguous case.
We know it can be impersonal because of we replace se sabe with alguien sabe or unos saben the sentence makes sense.
We also know it could be passive because we can ...
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¿Cuáles son las formas impersonales?
Creo que tu confusión comienza con la terminología. Impersonal es una clase de construcción verbal. En esta construcción, el verbo es conjugado en la tercera persona del singular y va acompañado del ...
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The use of "se le" in "A su muerte, pidió que **se le** enterrara en secreto."
"(que) se le enterrara en secreto" is, in fact, a passive clause, and is correctly translated as proposed: "(that) he be buried in secret."
Being passive and in the absence of any noun or noun phrase ...
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Using 2 verbs in a passive voice
Basically, the same way you would with one. Note an active voice construction with and without poder
alguien vende queso
alguien puede vender queso.
To use the pasivo reflejo, first obviously ...
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Passive voice with direct and indirect object pronouns
The passive construction to which you're referring is usually called pasiva refleja ("reflexive passive [voice]"), because of the use of the reflexive pronoun se.
The passive form that would ...
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Passive voice - have been studied?
Spanish allows to utilize two different types of passive sentences, so it would have been possible to make both of the next translations:
Estas cosas han sido estudiadas.
Se han estudiado esas cosas. ...
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All else being equal, do rules of good Spanish writing encourage symmetry in sentences?
The first sentence, with "se intensifica" and "recalienta," is of course fine. ("se recalienta," as guifa said in his comment, is not possible.)
However, it'd be perfect in Spanish to say:
El cambio ...
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How did the word "se" come to have so many usages in Spanish?
Se as the third person reflexive pronoun comes from the Latin reflexive pronoun, which was se in the accusative case and sibi in the dative case (later merged). So se as a reflexive mark is the oldest ...
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Are there any rules governing when you can and cannot use a present tense form of "ser" + a past participle to form a passive sentence?
I'm going to give you a very simple answer (and to do so I must ignore the question in your title -- if you want to address this I suggest a separate Question):
Your solutions to the exercises are ...
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Are there any rules governing when you can and cannot use a present tense form of "ser" + a past participle to form a passive sentence?
There are several things going on here. As indicated by other people already, your answers are not ungrammatical. Mostly they sound wrong because they don't correspond to the implied context.
Los ...
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What is "Bardem será nominado para los Oscar" in the active voice?
Just as in English:
The Academy / They will nominate Bardem for the Oscars.
we can also say in Spanish:
La Academia nominará / Nominarán a Bardem para los Oscar.
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¿"Se ha explorado" o "Se han explorado"?
Es una magnífica pregunta, y es "un clásico". La regla es que, si es pasiva refleja, el verbo debe concordar con el sujeto paciente (plural), mientras que si es impersonal, el verbo está en singular.
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Dos formas por una función: "ser+participio" y "se pasiva" para referirse a algo en voz pasiva
Algunas diferencias:
La pasiva con "se" es más idiomática que la pasiva perifrástica (ser + participio): "La fiesta se celebra cada año" es más común que "La fiesta es celebrada cada año", que suena ...
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Which dialects use "fue matado" in place of "fue muerto"?
El participio de matar es matado, de modo que para la formación de los tiempos compuestos se usa este participio:
Lo he matado. I killed him
Lo había matado. I had killed him
Lo habrá matado....
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¿La diferencia entre «se llama» y «se le llama»?
Prácticamente no hay diferencia entre:
Eso se llama estrategia.
A eso se le llama estrategia.
La segunda oración podría ser algo más enfática (a eso, y no a otra cosa), aunque es cierto que "eso" ...
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Passive Reflexive (passive se) or Simple Reflexive?
I think the sentence:
La ciudad se renueva constantemente.
can be parsed either as a pure reflexive or as a "se"-passive sentence, and this is because the noun phrase "la ciudad" ...
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History of different passive forms in Spanish
The modern periphrastic passive construction (ser + participle) comes from Latin, although at first it was used as a passive preterit: amātus sum = "I was loved, I have been loved", and was then ...
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All else being equal, do rules of good Spanish writing encourage symmetry in sentences?
Although the Grammatical rules in Spanish provide apmple headroom to compose the most capricious and contorted sentences while retaining the idea you wish to convey, providing for great creative ...
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Word order in passive voice
For a Spanish learner only:
Todos los coches están vendidos. [with an o, coche is masculine]
Están vendidos todos los coches.
Both mean: all the cars are sold.
Both are fine. And yes, it depends on ...
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Confundir(se): Passive or not?
This verb form is not reflexive. True reflexivity implies some action by the subject on itself, but becoming confused is not an action, and the subject of the verb is clearly not doing something to ...
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The passive nature of haber in "me han robado"
The verb "haber" is merely a perfect tense auxiliary and its use is not in any way related to the sentence being active or passive. We could in fact use a simple tense:
a. Me robaron. (I was ...
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