Culture & the Arts
संस्कृति और कला
Hindi has its own agent-marking passive for exactly this purpose — किसी कलाकार द्वारा बनाई गई ('made by an artist') — using द्वारा ('by') to name the creator explicitly, the direct structural equivalent of French's passive with par.
Grammar Comparison
व्याकरण तुलना
Naming the creator: the passive with par — matched by Hindi's द्वारा
Ce tableau a été peint par un artiste inconnu. (This painting was painted by an unknown artist)
यह पेंटिंग एक अज्ञात कलाकार द्वारा बनाई गई थी।
Describing art, film, and literature is one of the most natural places to use the passive with par — unlike political register, which prefers on to keep the actor vague, art criticism regularly names the creator explicitly with par + agent. Hindi has the identical tool ready to go: द्वारा marks the agent in a Hindi passive sentence exactly the way par does in French, अज्ञात कलाकार द्वारा बनाई गई ('made by an unknown artist') — so this is a case where you can lean directly on an existing Hindi construction rather than learning a new grammatical habit from scratch.
Vocabulary
शब्दावली
- Hindi
- कृतिkṛti
- English
- a work (of art)
- Hindi
- चित्रcitra
- English
- a painting
- Hindi
- उपन्यासupanyās
- English
- a novel
- Hindi
- निर्देशकnirdeśak
- English
- a (film) director
- Hindi
- शो/प्रदर्शनśo/pradarśan
- English
- a show / performance
- Hindi
- प्रदर्शनीpradarśanī
- English
- an exhibition
- Hindi
- चित्रकलाcitrakalā
- English
- painting (the art form)
- Hindi
- मूर्तिकलाmūrtikalā
- English
- sculpture
- Hindi
- उत्कृष्ट कृतिutkṛṣṭ kṛti
- English
- a masterpiece
- Hindi
- विरासतvirāsat
- English
- heritage
- Hindi
- उत्सवutsav
- English
- a festival
- Hindi
- समीक्षाsamīkṣā
- English
- the review / critique