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active voice

active voice noun: the form in which the subject of a verb carries out some action.

Noun

active voice (usually uncountable, plural active voices)

  1. (usually) The form in which the subject of a verb carries out some action.
    • "The ball was kicked by Fred." would, in active voice, be "Fred kicked the ball."
  2. (countable, usually) A form in a particular language used to express the active voice.

active voice meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Tagalog

active voice in Tamil

செய்வினை, செயல்வினை

active voice in Urdu

active voice
معروف ma'rūf

active voice in Malayalam

the form in which the subject of a verb carries out some action
കർത്തരിപ്രയോഗം kaṟttariprayōgaṁ

active voice in Tagalog

the form in which the subject of a verb carries out some action
tinig-tahasan
More languagesFewer languages
active voice in Arabic
صِيغَة مَعْلُوم ṣīḡat maʕlūm, مَبْنِيّ لِلْمَعْلُوم mabniyy lilmaʕlūm
active voice in Persian
صیغه معلوم siġe-ye ma'lum

Forms of active voice

pluralactive voices

Questions about active voice

What does active voice mean?
Active voice means the form in which the subject of a verb carries out some action.
What is active voice in Tamil?
Active voice in Tamil is செய்வினை, செயல்வினை. See Active voice meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is active voice?
Active voice is a noun.
What is the plural of active voice?
The plural of active voice is active voices.

Words near active voice in the dictionary

  1. active timings
  2. active transport
  3. active travel
  4. active vocabularies
  5. active vocabulary
  6. active voice
  7. active voices
  8. active volcano
  9. active volcanoes
  10. active volcanos
  11. active-duty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: active voice (page history and authors); active voice (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); معروف (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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