Breakdown of Studenten tilldelades stipendiet av kommittén.
studenten
the student
av
of, by / from (cause)
stipendiet
the scholarship
tilldela
to award
Questions & Answers about Studenten tilldelades stipendiet av kommittén.
In this sentence, studenten is the subject. How would this look in the active voice?
In the active voice, the committee is the subject doing the awarding: Kommittén tilldelade studenten stipendiet. The verb tilldela takes two objects (a recipient, studenten, and the thing being given, stipendiet). When we make it passive, we promote the recipient to the subject position, just like in English.
If studenten is the subject of the passive sentence, what role does stipendiet play?
It acts as a retained object. Even though the sentence is passive, the verb tilldelades still needs its direct object to make full sense. Therefore, stipendiet stays in the exact same grammatical role it had in the active sentence.
Could I say Studenten blev tilldelad stipendiet instead?
Why is the definite form of the scholarship stipendiet? What is the root word?