Translation
passive participle, present: being done
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Examples
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The letter is being written now.
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She is much loved by her friends.
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The house is being built by the river.
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The spoken language is often simpler.
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Dear Sir, thank you for your letter.
-at- is the passive participle of the present: the root's action is being done to someone or something at the moment in question. gives (being written), gives (loved), gives (being built). Put in front of it and you have the passive voice: is "the letter is being written". The doer, if you name them, comes with .
The nuance worth holding on to is that -at- describes a state that is still going on. is loved now, continuously; is a language that people speak. That is why the formal letter opens : the esteem is current.
Its partners are -it- (has been done) and -- (is to be done), and the whole passive is laid out in the passive article, including the century-old argument over when to use -ata and when -ita.
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