dtewi said:
Passive forms have the verb and the ablative of agent (in most cases). "To be born" doesn't have an ablative of agent. "I was born by my mother" doesn't make sense. :/ Hmmm... does English have deponent verbs? |
It makes sense. It's just an archaic form which is no longer used.
"I was born by my mother" means the same as "My mother bore me", which would similarly never be seen or heard in modern day English. So, nowadays, it is a deponent verb, yes.







