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The passive construction in creoles is one of the topics that have been much discussed to see how it can be systematically and uniformly accounted for, given that most creoles and spoken languages have not yet been properly codified by an appropriate body. As a creole does not have a standardized orthography and many elements of its writing system remain contested, Kristang is the one that this paper focuses on to try to provide a unified analysis within the recent syntactic framework. Kristang is known as having four variant forms of the passive which are assumed to be inherited from its substrate, Malay. The purpose of this paper is to determine why Kristang might have such a multiplicity of forms in the passives and to see if this multiplicity can be shown to be derived from a single base structure. This paper eventually attempts to provide both the structures of all four passives in Kristang and a preliminary understanding of the motivation behind the variation, but reaches a conclusion that at least one of these passive constructions in creoles could possibly be something other than a passive structure.