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If the verb "bring" is 가져오다 or 가져가다, what will be the passive of it? Because it seems there is no passive form for 오다 or 가다.

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    If you really want to make a passive voice with 가져오다/가져가다, you can say 가져와졌다/가져가졌다, but I think in all practical cases it would be better to find another verb or sentence structure, as @jick says in their answer.
    – Ignatius
    Mar 20, 2019 at 2:47
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    Edit to the comment above: I should've said 가져와지다/가져가지다. -졌다 is past tense.
    – Ignatius
    Mar 21, 2019 at 11:26

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I don't think 가져오다/가져가다 has a passive form. Instead you will use active form or different verbs depending on context - note that in Korean one can easily "emphasize the object" by changing word order or using topic marker -은/는.

So, for example:

The box was brought here by me. -> 그 상자는 내가 가져왔다. (Active form, but "the box" is the topic.)

The box was brought here on a cart. -> 그 상자는 카트에 실려왔다. (Alternative passive verb.)

The new insect species was then brought to America. -> 이 새로운 종의 곤충은 이후 아메리카로 전파되었다.

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