Passive voice

Passive - grammatical voice common in many languages. Article “Passive voice” in English Wikipedia has 35.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 26 references and 9 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Passive voice”, its content was written by 135 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 502 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 367 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1611 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #926 in August 2002
• Global: #2345 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #16128 in April 2019
• Global: #21721 in April 2019

There are 25 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Passive voice		35.5904
2	Finnish (fi) Passiivi		35.258
3	Malay (ms) Ragam pasif		31.2226
4	Ukrainian (uk) Пасивний стан		31.1435
5	Serbian (sr) Пасив (енглески језик)		30.6621
6	Japanese (ja) 受動態		28.5079
7	Thai (th) กรรมวาจก		23.0774
8	Chinese (zh) 被動語態		22.7107
9	Basque (eu) Boz pasibo		21.7131
10	Catalan (ca) Veu passiva		16.4907

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Passive voice" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Passive voice		2 004 471
2	Spanish (es) Voz pasiva		1 607 488
3	Arabic (ar) فعل مبني للمجهول		1 110 063
4	Czech (cs) Trpný rod		353 400
5	Japanese (ja) 受動態		261 491
6	Persian (fa) فعل مجهول		225 093
7	Finnish (fi) Passiivi		168 192
8	French (fr) Voix passive		128 089
9	Korean (ko) 수동태		97 061
10	Danish (da) Passiv (grammatik)		90 498

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Passive voice" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Passive voice		2 603
2	Persian (fa) فعل مجهول		371
3	Bulgarian (bg) Страдателен залог		328
4	Spanish (es) Voz pasiva		285
5	Armenian (hy) Կրավորական սեռ		245
6	French (fr) Voix passive		243
7	Japanese (ja) 受動態		190
8	Chinese (zh) 被動語態		164
9	Korean (ko) 수동태		160
10	Czech (cs) Trpný rod		155

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Passive voice" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Passive voice		135
2	Spanish (es) Voz pasiva		50
3	Italian (it) Diatesi passiva		41
4	French (fr) Voix passive		36
5	Japanese (ja) 受動態		36
6	Czech (cs) Trpný rod		33
7	Finnish (fi) Passiivi		32
8	Arabic (ar) فعل مبني للمجهول		28
9	Korean (ko) 수동태		16
10	Latin (la) Passivum		16

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Passive voice" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Basque (eu) Boz pasibo		1
2	Arabic (ar) فعل مبني للمجهول		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Страдателен залог		0
4	Catalan (ca) Veu passiva		0
5	Czech (cs) Trpný rod		0
6	Danish (da) Passiv (grammatik)		0
7	English (en) Passive voice		0
8	Spanish (es) Voz pasiva		0
9	Persian (fa) فعل مجهول		0
10	Finnish (fi) Passiivi		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Passive voice" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Passive voice		367
2	Arabic (ar) فعل مبني للمجهول		289
3	French (fr) Voix passive		151
4	Japanese (ja) 受動態		116
5	Swedish (sv) Passivum		100
6	Spanish (es) Voz pasiva		92
7	Italian (it) Diatesi passiva		68
8	Czech (cs) Trpný rod		58
9	Chinese (zh) 被動語態		49
10	Ukrainian (uk) Пасивний стан		47

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فعل مبني للمجهول
bg	Bulgarian Страдателен залог
ca	Catalan Veu passiva
cs	Czech Trpný rod
da	Danish Passiv (grammatik)
en	English Passive voice
es	Spanish Voz pasiva
eu	Basque Boz pasibo
fa	Persian فعل مجهول
fi	Finnish Passiivi
fr	French Voix passive
hy	Armenian Կրավորական սեռ
id	Indonesian Diatesis pasif
it	Italian Diatesi passiva
ja	Japanese 受動態
ko	Korean 수동태
la	Latin Passivum
ms	Malay Ragam pasif
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Passiv
no	Norwegian Passivkonstruksjon
sr	Serbian Пасив (енглески језик)
sv	Swedish Passivum
th	Thai กรรมวาจก
uk	Ukrainian Пасивний стан
zh	Chinese 被動語態

Best Rank

English: #16128 04.2019

Global: #21721 04.2019

Best Rank

English: #926 08.2002

Global: #2345 08.2002

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