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rob

nnmmss

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Persian
hi

are these sentences correct?
1)I was robbed.
2) the Thief was robbed me

is there any difference in meaning of them?
thanks
1 could be correct. 2 is clearly incorrect, and does not mean anything in English. "Rob" is a transitive verb. In the active voice, the thief is the subject, and the victim is the object of the verb.

A thief robbed me.
I was robbed (by a thief.)
sorry i was just misspelled the second sentence is
2) the thief has robbed me.
Hello nnmmss. 👁 Smile :)

So you want to compare these sentences:

1) I was robbed.
2) The thief has robbed me.

They both describe the same event, but they make a different person the center. The first mentions only the person who was robbed. The second focuses on the action of the thief.
You are considering the difference between the active and passive voice, but you are not using the same tense in each sentence. "The thief has robbed me" is active voice; its passive form is "I have been robbed by the thief."
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