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11 Jun 2017
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The sentence pattern below -
[名詞] に [受け身形]
E.g. 雨に降られて、服が濡れてしまった。
What does this mean? I understand the meaning of the sentence, but I don't understand how else I can use this sentence pattern.
誰か教えてくれませんか？ 🙏🏻
The sentence pattern below -
[名詞] に [受け身形]
E.g. 雨に降られて、服が濡れてしまった。
What does this mean? I understand the meaning of the sentence, but I don't understand how else I can use this sentence pattern.
誰か教えてくれませんか？ 🙏🏻
[名詞] に [受け身形]
E.g. 雨に降られて、服が濡れてしまった。
What does this mean? I understand the meaning of the sentence, but I don't understand how else I can use this sentence pattern.
誰か教えてくれませんか？ 🙏🏻
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- Japanese
We often omit subject. (【主語】は ) 【名詞】に 【受け身形】でよく使うよ
- Japanese
e.g.先生に怒鳴られた。
the teacher shouted at me.
上司にこの仕事を頼まれた。
my boss asked me to do this work.
does it help?!
- Japanese
雨に降られた literally translates as "be fallen by the rain"
In English, you don't say "I was fallen by the rain", but in Japanese you say that.
Aside from this fact, I think the phrase "be done by something" is
equivalent to "somethingにdoられた"
let me give you a few examples.
I was asked by the boss to get the job done.
the bossに仕事を終わらせるようにwas asked
上司に仕事を終わらせるように頼まれた。
This novel was written by a famous novelist.
この小説はfamous novelistによって was written
この小説は有名な小説家によって書かれました。
- Japanese
We tend to make a sentence in a passive voice especially where we are involved with the third person while you English speakers generally make it in an active voice.
If you want to make a passive voice in Japanese, you just use "〜られる". "雨にふられる" meaning "be caught in the rain" is a special expression even among passive voice sentences, so you just remember this as a special one.
昨日財布を盗まれた。
I had my wallet stolen yesterday.
私の財布は盗まれた。
My wallet was stolen.
(私は)先生から呼ばれた。
I was called by the teacher.
(私は)彼にこれをやるよう頼まれた。
I was asked to do this by him.
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