1399: Other Voices: Hebrew Oct 10, 2018
In the video published yesterday, the idea of the middle voice was discussed. However, while the passival this is the only way that the active and passive voices are subverted in English, many languages have other options. For instance, Hebrew and Ancient Mongolian both have 5 voices but not all of these are the same; they both have active, passive, and causative (i.e. the verb indicates causation) but Hebrew has what are called the intensive and reflexive voices to indicate intensive force on an object and indicate when a subject is an object as well (like in "he shaved") respectively. Ancient Mongolian has two others as well, but these will be discussed tomorrow.