result of it; using a form of ("to become") + the perfect participle (bli-passive); this form stresses the change caused by the action; using a form of ("to be") + the perfect participle (vara-passive); this form puts the result of the action in the center of interest; use a form of ("to get") + the perfect participle (analogous to English get-passive); this form is used when you want to use a subject other than the "normal" one in a passive clause. Examples: – "The door is being painted", i.e. someone is performing the action of painting the door at this moment. – "The door is being (becoming) painted", i.e. in a new colour, or it wasn't painted before (the action is not necessarily occurring at this moment). – "The door is painted", i.e. it is not unpainted (state). – "He got the door painted." In English you could say: "the door was painted for him", but if you want he to be the subject you need to use this structure, which is shared by Swedish. English can use to have for to get here (he had the door...), which is not possible in Swedish. Subjunctive mood The subjunctive mood is very rarely used in modern Swedish and is limited to a few fixed expressions like , "long live the king". Present subjunctive is formed by adding the -e ending to the stem of a verb: {|class="wikitable" |- !Infinitive !Present tense indicative !Present tense subjunctive |- |att , "to speak" |, "speak(s)" |, "may speak" |- |att , "to become" |, "become(s)" |, "may become" (the -v- comes from the older form ) |- |att , "to write" |, "write(s)" |, "may write" |- |att , "to run" |, "run(s)" |, "may run" |} {|class="wikitable" |- !Infinitive !Past tense indicative !Supine indicative !Past tense subjunctive |- |att , "to exist (be)" |, "existed (there was)" |, "has existed (there has been)" |, "if only there were time" (changes past tense -a- to supine -u-) |- |att , "to become" |, "became" |, "have/has become" |, "if only it became so" (regular: just appends -e to the past tense) |- |att , "to write" |, "wrote" |, "written" |, "if I should write a letter" (regular: appends -e) |} Historical plural forms In Swedish, the verbs used to conjugate similarly to modern Icelandic. In less formal Swedish the verbs started to lose