Passive with Modal Verbs
సహాయక క్రియలతో కర్మణి వాక్యం
Combine the passive from B1 with a modal verb, and German stacks three verb elements at once — the modal in position two, the participle and infinitive werden both pushed to the end.
Grammar Comparison
వ్యాకరణ పోలిక
Modal + participle + werden, all piling up at the end
Das muss gemacht werden. (This must be done — muss stays in position 2; gemacht werden both go to the end)
ఇది చేయబడాలి. (this do-బడు-ఆలి — the passive marker and the necessity marker both attach directly onto the verb, at the end)
Telugu handles this by stacking suffixes directly onto a single verb root: చేయు ('do') plus బడు (the -బడు passive auxiliary) plus ఆలి (necessity, 'must') fuse into one word-final cluster, చేయబడాలి. German achieves the identical layered meaning — 'passive' plus 'necessity' — by stacking three separate words instead of suffixes, but true to form it still crams all of that weight onto the end of the clause. If you can build the Telugu version by chaining suffixes onto చేయు, you already have the right instinct for where the pieces belong in German.
Vocabulary
పదజాలం
- Telugu
- చేయబడాలిcheyabadaali
- English
- must be done
- Telugu
- సరి చేయబడగలదుsari cheyabadagaladu
- English
- can be repaired
- Telugu
- నిర్మించబడాలిnirminchabadaali
- English
- should be built
- Telugu
- పొగ తాగకూడదుpoga thaagakoodadu
- English
- smoking is not allowed