Word
Die Bedeutung ist sofort übernommen worden.
Meaning
The meaning has been adopted immediately.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Die Bedeutung ist sofort übernommen worden.
sein
to be
sofort
immediately
übernehmen
to take over
werden
to be (passive auxiliary + past participle)
Questions & Answers about Die Bedeutung ist sofort übernommen worden.
Why does this sentence use worden instead of geworden?
When werden is used as a helping verb to build the passive voice (meaning something has been done), its past participle drops the ge- and becomes just worden. You only use geworden when werden is the main verb meaning "to become" (for example: Es ist besser geworden - It has become better).
Why doesn't the past participle übernommen have a -ge- in it?
The verb übernehmen (to adopt or take over) has an inseparable prefix (über-). Verbs with inseparable prefixes never add ge- when forming their past participle. Since it's a strong (irregular) verb, the stem vowel just changes to form übernommen.
How is the Present Perfect Passive (Perfekt Passiv) structured in this sentence?
It uses the conjugated form of sein (here, ist) in the second position, while the main past participle (übernommen) and the passive helper worden are pushed all the way to the end of the sentence.
Could I just say Die Bedeutung wurde sofort übernommen instead?