Personal passive

In the personal passive, an active sentence that contains an accusative object is converted into the passive voice. This means that the active sentence contains a transitive verb and its accusative object. For example:

active				passive
Der Mechaniker	repariert	den Motor.		Der Motor	wird repariert.

The following changes take place:

	The subject of the active voice sentence is not mentioned in the passive voice sentence.*
	The active voice finite verb switches to its passive voice type (werden + past participle).
	The accusative object of the active voice sentence becomes the subject of the passive voice sentence.

* The subject of the active voice sentence can be mentioned in the passive voice sentence by using a prepositional phrase introduced by prepositions von or durch. The indefinite pronoun man is an exception, when it is the subject of the active voice sentence, as it cannot be mentioned as an agent in a passive voice sentence.