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What is the term for a sentence structure that uses only a passive voice with a past participle in a personal greeting, such as "I wish you a good night"? I'm currently finding countless examples of this in personal messages, and I find this type of sentence structure impersonal and distant. Is there a name for it?
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Whether active or passive, you can consider it as a keyword style, since everything that is not necessary for the sense is omitted even if it is only an auxiliary verb.
I honestly don’t know this sentence structure. Is that really common?
I would say, “Wünsche gut Nacht!” (without the “ich” as a subject).
But with Partizip II this looks strange to me. 🤔
Actually, that’s it. In the case of wishes, I feel this trend is particularly unpleasant. Good improvement desired. Much success desired. This shortened sentence form is also reflected in conversations and not only in written communication. However, the vast majority do not serve this trend.
Okay, that’s really unknown to me! However, I live in Switzerland, we speak and write naturally anyway differently…
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What’s that? Robot language? Automated German?
I’d rather not say anything like that. For this, every grammatical term of good will is too much.