madlatinist asked:
Yes, for every tense where there’s an active infinitive, there is a corresponding passive infinitive. Here’s each one using dohaeragon “to serve” as an example:
- Present: dohaeragon~dohaerakson
- Perfect: dohaertagon~dohaertakson
- Aorist: dohaerigon~dohaeriakson
Here are a couple examples:
- Havon sīr ipradakson kostas. “The bread can now be eaten.”
- Kydȳptakson sȳz kesos. “It would be good to have been measured.”
- Dohaeriakson raqan. “I like to be served.”
Always tough to come up with perfect infinitive examples (especially in the passive), but imagine if one were planning a bachelor party, but all the groomsmen had to get measured for their tuxes on the same day. The best man is trying to decide if they should go skydiving first and then get measured, or get measured first. One could imagine the above being the beginning of a response (e.g. “It would be good to have been measured before skydiving, in case we die. Then we’ll already be measured for our funeral tuxes.”).