Hand-book of Volapük/14

= THE PASSIV VOICE = All the tenses of the passiv voice commence with the letter p. Therefore the passiv tense-augments are,

In English, a present passiv is often really perfect in signification; as, "the house is finished," ,,dom pefinom." On the other hand we use what is, apparently, an activ form in a passiv sense, as, "the house is building," meaning "the house is being built," ,,dom pabumom." In all such cases we must consider the sense and not the sound.