Topic 51 of 62

المبني للمجهول— The Passive Voice

The passive voice drops the فاعل and promotes the object into its place, called نائب الفاعل, always مرفوع. The past tense takes ḍamma-then-kasra (كَتَبَ → كُتِبَ), and the present tense takes ḍamma-then-fatḥa (يَكْتُبُ → يُكْتَبُ). "The student wrote the letter" (كَتَبَ الطالبُ الرسالةَ) becomes simply كُتِبَتِ الرسالةُ — "The letter was written."