| alekth said: That is exactly my point (that I admittedly discovered after consulting a dictionary). You yourself asked what the active form of be born would be, but as it turns out be born is a separate verb, and as you already state in your last post, a verb in its active form. It doesn't have a passive form because it's not transitive. I was borne by my mother would be the grammatically correct one though, bear is transitive. Putting aside the fact that it sounds awkward due to being so obvious and redundant. However maybe it wouldn't be in the case of Athens for example, who was borne by Zeus (then again since it was such a peculiar birth compared to the normal process, it does sound more normal to simply say born from his head or something along the lines). |
We can just forget about bear, as that's archaic English.
Kimi wa ne tashika ni ano toki watashi no soba ni ita
Itsudatte itsudatte itsudatte
Sugu yoko de waratteita
Nakushitemo torimodosu kimi wo
I will never leave you
