examples and explanations: dynamic: ("The lawn is being mown right now" / "The lawn is mown often", literally "The lawn gets mown right now / often", dynamic) stative: ("The lawn is [already] mown.") A number of German verbs such as ("cover"), ("fill"), and ("separate"), when used as stative verbs, usually only form static passives. - ("Snow covers the ground", active) - ("The ground is covered with snow", static) - rare, poetic: ("The ground is being covered with snow", dynamic) - but not: * (The English equivalent would be equally incorrect: *"The street is being covered with rubble.") - correct: ("The street is covered with rubble.") In English, the passive voice expressed with the auxiliary verb "get" rather than "be" ("get-passive") expresses a dynamic rather than a static meaning. But when the auxiliary verb "be" is used, the main verb can have either a dynamic or static meaning as shown below (including copies of some examples from above): The dog gets fed twice a day. (dynamic) The dog is fed (twice a day). (dynamic) The dog is fed (so we can leave now). (stative) The couple got married last spring. (dynamic) The marriage was celebrated last spring. (dynamic) It is agreed that laws were invented for the safety of citizens. (stative) Verbs that typically express static meaning can show dynamic meaning when used in the passive formed with get, for example be known (static) vs. get known (dynamic): Zoltan is known for hosting big parties. (static) Get your foot in the door, get known. (dynamic) See also Impersonal verb List of common English usage misconceptions Footnotes References External links Confusion over avoiding the passive Siewierska, Anna. 2005. Passive constructions. In Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil & Bernard Comrie (eds.), The World Atlas of Language Structures, 434–437. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Zúñiga, Fernando & Seppo Kittilä. 2019. Grammatical Voice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Grammatical voices Transitivity and valency Grammatical construction types de:Leideform