Ich bekomme morgen die Tickets zugeschickt.

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Breakdown of Ich bekomme morgen die Tickets zugeschickt.

• morgen: tomorrow
• das Ticket: the ticket
• zugeschickt bekommen: to get sent

Questions & Answers about Ich bekomme morgen die Tickets zugeschickt.

What construction is this? Is bekomme … zugeschickt a kind of passive?

Yes. It’s the so‑called bekommen-passive (also called the recipient passive / Rezipientenpassiv). The recipient becomes the subject (Ich), the thing stays in the accusative (die Tickets), and the main verb appears as a past participle at the end (zugeschickt). It’s present tense (finite verb = bekomme), not the present perfect. Active source: Jemand schickt mir die Tickets (zu). → Recipient passive: Ich bekomme die Tickets zugeschickt.

Why is zugeschickt at the end?

German main clauses form a “verb bracket”: the finite verb (bekomme) is in position 2, and non‑finite parts go to the end. Also, zuschicken is a separable verb. In the normal active, you’d see the prefix go to the end: Ich schicke dir die Tickets zu. In the recipient passive, you use the participle zugeschickt at the end.

Why is it die Tickets and not something like den/dem Tickets?

Because in the recipient passive the item remains the accusative object. Tickets is plural; the accusative plural article is die. So: Ich bekomme morgen die Tickets zugeschickt.

Can I say Die Tickets werden mir zugeschickt instead? What’s the difference?