Breakdown of Domaren tror att kvinnan blir dömd idag.
idag
today
kvinnan
the woman
tro
to believe
bli
to become
att
that
domaren
the judge
döma
to sentence
Questions & Answers about Domaren tror att kvinnan blir dömd idag.
Why do we use blir dömd here instead of är dömd?
We use bli + past participle to form the dynamic passive, which describes an action or a change happening right now ("is being sentenced" or "gets sentenced"). If we used är dömd, it would describe a completed state, meaning the sentencing was already finished.
Why is the past participle dömd and not dömt or dömda?
In a passive sentence using bli, the past participle acts like an adjective and has to agree with the subject. Since the subject kvinnan is a singular en-word, we use the base form dömd. If the subject were an ett-word, we would use dömt, and for plural subjects, it would be dömda.
Could we use the s-passive (döms) instead of blir dömd?
Why is "the judge" written as domaren instead of adding a full -en?
The base word for "judge" is domare. For en-words that already end in -are (which are often professions or people), we just add an -n to make it definite ("the judge"). Adding a full -en would make it hard to pronounce.
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