Breakdown of Das Haus wurde gestern gekauft und soll jetzt eingerichtet werden.
und
and
das Haus
the house
kaufen
to buy
jetzt
now
gestern
yesterday
sollen
should / ought to
werden
to be (passive auxiliary + past participle)
einrichten
to furnish
Questions & Answers about Das Haus wurde gestern gekauft und soll jetzt eingerichtet werden.
How is the passive voice with a modal verb formed in the second half of this sentence?
The modal verb soll takes the second position in the clause, just like in an active sentence. The passive part gets pushed to the very end as a passive infinitive. This passive infinitive is made of the past participle eingerichtet plus the infinitive werden. So the structure is: modal verb + past participle + werden.
Why do we use wurde in the first part but werden in the second part?
The first clause is in the simple past passive, which uses the past tense of werden (here, wurde) plus a past participle (gekauft). The second clause uses a modal verb (soll). Modal verbs always push the second verb to the end of the sentence in its dictionary form (infinitive). Therefore, we must use the infinitive werden rather than a conjugated form like wird or wurde.
Where is the subject in the second half of the sentence?
The subject for both halves is Das Haus. Because the subject doesn't change after the coordinating conjunction und (and), you don't need to repeat it. It is perfectly natural in German to drop it, just as we say 'The house was bought and should be furnished' in English without repeating the word 'it'.
Why does the word eingerichtet have -ge- in the middle of it?
The verb for 'to furnish' or 'to set up' is einrichten, which is a separable verb. When forming the past participle for a separable verb, the -ge- is placed between the separable prefix (ein-) and the verb stem (-richtet), resulting in eingerichtet.
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