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I read this sentence:
Auf der Hochzeit war jedes Alter vertreten.
This seemed odd to me, because I would have said wurde vertreten instead. A German-speaking friend said that wurde would sound strange here, but she could not explain the grammatical rule behind it. Can someone explain the use of the stative passive here?
As described in the comment above, the word is vertreten sein which means to be physically present.
vertreten werden, on the other hand, means to be represented by someone else (e.g. when you couldn't attend yourself due to health issues and send someone else instead).
The stative passive (with sein) describes a status while the dynamic passive (with werden) describes an action.
In your example, every age is being represented at the wedding. There is no action involved, the ages are just being there. If you used werden then something is actively being represented: I could be going to a counter to actively represent something there.
