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No, you can't say that to mean something was stolen from you.

You can say "I was robbed" (or other slang words, like "ripped off" instead of "robbed").

To use "stolen," it's "Someone stole my [something]."

My question is can I say ''I was stolen by someone?"

My answer is that you cannot say "I was stolen by someone"! You can say that someone stole something from you or that you were kidnapped (by someone), but not that you were stolen by someone!

CJ

I think you could say,

Something was stolen from me.

But what about this one:

I was stolen a pen by someone.

Try: Someone stole my pen.

If you want it in the passive, then: My pen was stolen by someone.

X was stolen -means that X is the item that was taken. If you say "I was stolen" then YOU are what was stolen (i.e., kidnapped, although we don't say it that way).

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