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The passive construction
- Passive forms
- Regular passive
- ni yotte passive
- Adversative passive
- Adversative passive with transitive verb
- Adversative passive with intransitive verb
- Passive sentence with inanimate subject
- Causative passive
- Other ways to express passive meaning
- Intransitive verbs that are passive in meaning
- Some verbal nouns + ni naru
- Verb (plain nonpast) + koto ni naru
- Causative te-form + morau
- Understanding causative, adversative passive and causative passive sentences
Abstract
In active sentences, the subject is the agent that performs the action denoted by the verb. In passive sentences, the subject is the receiver of the action, and the agent may or may not be expressed in the sentence. There are two types of passive constructions in Japanese, direct (regular) and indirect (adversative).
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