The passive voice in German necessitates the syntactic restructuring of the sentence, promoting the object to the subject position and demoting the agent. Mastery requires the precise manipulation of the auxiliary verbs 'werden' (for process/Vorgangspassiv) and 'sein' (for state/Zustandspassiv) across the full range of tenses. Candidates must demonstrate competence in agent introduction using 'von' with the dative for personal agents and 'durch' with the accusative for instrumental agents, alongside the correct agreement of past participles.
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