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Detector de Voz Passiva (PT)

Conta frases com voz passiva por heurística: "foi/foram/é/são/era + verbo no particípio (-ado/-ido)".

Frases passivas

Finding passive sentences in Portuguese text

Corporate reports drift the same way in Portuguese: foi realizado, foram identificados, é recomendado. Nobody ever shows up doing anything. Editors, teachers and style guides ask for active voice, but hunting those sentences across ten pages is the dull part of the job. This page splits the text into sentences and counts how many match the common analytic passive pattern.

The rule pairs two pieces: an auxiliary from a fixed list (foi, foram, é, são, era, eram, será, serão, seja, sejam, sido) followed immediately by a participle ending in ado, ada, ados, adas, ido, ida, idos or idas. Each sentence counts once at most. Irregular participles therefore slip through: foi feito, foi escrito, foi visto and foi posto go undetected. Accented endings such as foi construída escape as well.

Read the result as a floor, not a total: the real number of passives is always equal to or higher than what you see. The synthetic passive built with the pronoun se (vendem-se casas, fez-se o levantamento) is never counted. False positives run the other way too, since ele é apaixonado or o time é dedicado match the pattern without being passive. Use it as triage before a human edit. Runs in your browser.

Frequently asked questions

Why does the built-in sample report zero passives?
Its two passive sentences use feito and construída, an irregular participle and an accented ending, both outside the pattern. Change one to foi aprovado and the counter reacts.
Does it highlight the sentences it found?
No. You get the count, the sentence total and a percentage. To locate each one, search for the auxiliaries in your editor.
Is passive voice wrong?
No. It is the right choice when the agent is unknown or beside the point. Overuse is the problem, and the percentage is what makes overuse visible.

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