Das Passiv

Participle plus जाना

• चिट्ठी लिखी गई। - The letter was written.
• खाना बनाया जाता है। - Food is cooked.
• यह काम कल किया जाएगा। - This work will be done tomorrow.

The participle agrees with the subject of the passive sentence, and जाना carries the tense.

The doer, if mentioned, takes से

राम से यह काम नहीं हुआ - Ram couldn't manage this work. But naming the doer in a passive is far less common than in English; the whole point is usually to leave them out.

The inability passive

A negated passive is the ordinary way to say that someone simply cannot manage something:

• मुझसे यह नहीं खाया जाता। - I can't eat this.
• मुझसे चला नहीं जाता। - I can't walk.

This is not the same as नहीं खा सकता, which is about ability or permission. The passive version is about the thing being beyond you.