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दौड़ा जाता है:
Passive to indicate action by unspecified subjects
      In Hindi-Urdu the inability or unwillingness to specify the subject of an action may lead speakers to use the passive, even if the verb is intransitive:
  1.  पड़ोस के घर से सुई-तागा लेने दौड़ा जा रहा है।
     'People are running to get a needle and thread from the neighbors.'
     (from § 1 of  प्रेमचन्द's  ईदगाह. See context.)
Because the passive of an intransitive verb has nothing to agree with it always assumes the default masculine third person singular form in -आ:
  2.  तेली के घर भागा जाता है।
     'People are running to the oil-man's house.'
     (from § 1 of  प्रेमचन्द's  ईदगाह. See context.)
      This use of the passive of intransitives is not common.  For other, more common uses, see notes on  रहा नहीं जाता and the passive of incapacity.
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To index of मल्हार.
Drafted 22-23 Sep 2001. Posted 24 Sep 2001.