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What is it?

A 'normal' active sentence would sound: drengen spiser æblet (the boy is eating the apple). Changing that into passive it becomes: æblet spises af drengen (the apple is eaten by the boy).

The Rules

#1: [verb] +s af
or
#2: bliver [verb participle] af

Examples
Present Tense
Active Passive #1 Passive #2
drengen spiser æblet æblet spises af drengen æblet bliver spist af drengen
the boy is eating the apple the apple is eaten by the boy the apple gets eaten by the boy
Past Tense
Active Passive #1 Passive #2
drengen spiste æblet æblet spistes af drengen æblet blev spist af drengen
the boy ate the apple the apple was eaten by the boy the apple got eaten by the boy
Present Perfect
Active Passive #1 Passive #2
drengen har spist æblet n/a æblet er blevet spist af drengen
the boy has eaten the apple the apple has been eaten by the boy [lit: the apple has gotten eaten by the boy]
Past Perfect
Active Passive #1 Passive #2
drengen havde spist æblet n/a æblet var blevet spist af drengen
the boy ate the apple the apple had been eaten by the boy the apple had gotten eaten by the boy