PASSIVE form┃-られた (rareta) (Sound Like a Native Speaker!)

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Today we'll learn how to use the passive form in Japanese.
The passive form will help you make sentences like:
★ He laughed at me.
☆ He took a picture of me! I'm upset.
★ My girlfriend looked at my phone.
☆ He dumped me.
★ They heard us!
☆ A delinquent hit me.
★ That person bought the last sandwich!!
☆ Someone stole my wallet.
And more!!
The passive form is a must-learn grammar point to sound like a native speaker so make sure you take notes and practice them in the comments below :)
I also explained the differences between this passive form and てしまう / ちゃう form.
てしまう / ちゃう lesson ⇓
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Clicked for the concern, stayed for the education.

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True

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grammar guidebook on the passive form: well, it's confusing and complicated so good luck みさ先生: *explains it* Me: よかった！！

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me too😄

[@hritesh7]

what about the water was drank by dog

[@kitsun3Pearce7]

​@@hritesh7 水は犬に飲まれていた。

[@gabrielferraz2687]

@@kitsun3Pearce7 「飲まれました」ですね

[@JapaneseAmmowithMisa]

After watching this lesson you'll be able to say "My bf/ gf hit me, stole my wallet and dumped me" in Japanese ;) P.S. 1:17 笑わられた　→　笑われた (waraWAreta) typo, sorry! P.P.S Don't worry about me guys! All the examples had to be naturally "dark" because of the nature of the passive form. (Someone did ~ to me and I'm upset)

[@kilindogma9711]

something i definitely needed, thank you

[@Aaowintheelf]

Are you ok? That just seems a little passive aggressive towards an party involved off screen. Just concerned. Thank you for the lessons!

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I'm in no way at this level with Japanese but Misa... you are sooooo good at this!!! A natural born teacher!!!! Brava!

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Misa, you are one of, if not the best Japanese teacher on KZbin. You explain this very thoroughly. Thanks for another great lesson!

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I hope you are at a intermediate level now by watching her videos.

[@filoshi]

Couldn't agree more! Thank you so much!

[@doger944]

I think your examples are getting darker.

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I think misa reads too much death note and the promised neverland..

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lol

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doger944 it’s okay I love that she is a normal human teaching, it is as if she was talking to us(you) in person.

[@persikmerino]

Because the passive form usually means [and I feel bad] most of the examples have to be bad situations

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The lessons are getting more mature and so are the examples.

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Been studying Japanese off-and-on for several years and finally, a Japanese teacher who explained this perfectly. Excellent video.

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I hope you are at a intermediate level now by watching her videos.

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That clickbait title though haha

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どう？

[@nafay]

@@Kreedo1110 When the video came out the title was just "He Hit Me then Dumped Me." without the other stuff

[@hollyxytphh]

super helpful! Thanks Misa 🙏

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Yes long lesson. The content is realy clear. Merci!

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[@ITFAE]

Wow, I was expecting to skip through most of this thinking "I know the passive form", but, like with your other videos, I didn't. So many new things sprinkled in along the way. Great video!! thank you!

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I'm currently reviewing the things I have already learned at my language school before the summer break is over and I cannot even begin to describe how useful this video was. Amazing!! Thank you so much for putting out such great videos. The comparisons with other grammar points is so so helpful!

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Before watching, I was wondering why the video is so long. I'm at the intermediate stage in my Japanese. I know a lot of words but have issues with grammar. This video was the best grammar video everrrrrrr. You always answered the questions that popped into my head as soon as they did. It feet like you explained it to someone learning, found out exactly where they'd get stuck and then structured the video to fix it at each point. Plus I also love that you mentioned things that are nuanced. It's hard to get these meaning anywhere else. Truly amazing!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!

[@kowalski_yukio]

What if you wanted to say "I'm being watched"? Would the passive form combine with the ～ている form to make the sentence be 「誰かに見られてる」?

[@JapaneseAmmowithMisa]

Yes! :)

[@kowalski_yukio]

@@JapaneseAmmowithMisa Yayy! I got it right! ありがとうございます、みさ先生！

[@shion3948]

What about 見られちゃった. Does it mean somebody saw me (and I'm upset) and also something like (by my mistake)??

[@kowalski_yukio]

@@shion3948 I'm not sure about the upset part but you're definitely right about the by my/our mistake part. ちゃった is generally used when something bad happens or when you're doing something you know you're not supposed to do (or like teasing someone) so it doesn't have to mean you're upset. please correct me if I'm wrong :D

[@user-ti2zo5fl3k]

@@kowalski_yukio I think the upset part they’re getting at is the -られ that comes after 見, since that’s the passive form of 見る. So, what they’re basically asking is this. “Does combining the passive form with ちゃう／じゃう mean that someone is doing something to you that you don’t like while the reason they’re doing it is because of you?” In the person’s example, I think they’re referring to a scenario where someone is creepily watching you and you don’t like it. However, the reason behind them watching you is because of something wrong that you did by accident.

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This has been the most difficult video so far for me. Luckily I can get you to repeat the lesson over and over again so I can grasp the language while I stumble through the mists of ignorance. Subtlety requires more intelligence so I am hoping Heaven will whack me on the head and hopefully let some light in. This language journey is sometimes rocky but the pagoda is always bright against the sky.

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Ah. Please don't scare me like that Misa Sensei. I was genuinely worried for a second and thought something terrible had happened to you. 無事でよかったです.

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Thank you for such a easily understandable lesson! I was tortured by passive tease for like 3 days and your video does help a Lott! thank you!

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This has been the most helpful Japanese lesson I've ever had, to be honest! You are so good at teaching in an easy to understand way!!

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This is by far the best video explaining passive on KZbin. My teacher couldn't get me to understand it, so this helped so much! I get it now! Thank you!

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I wanted to say my boss made me mad yesterday and somehow this video popped up. It was just a thought in my head so idk how it heard me. I am enjoying rewatching your videos again. Can't believe its been 5 years for this video!

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love it! absolutely love the lessons, waiting on the transitive and intransitive verbs. Please do one soon thank you.

[@ibrahim6233]

Finally the passive Form !! Thank you sooooo much Misa-Sensei.

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Please , more videos likes this ! That's great , your lessons are actually teaching how to flow into japanese language and not be just "gaijin-robot" with book phrases. 本当にやくに立った！みさ先生、ありがとう:)

[@renatus2006]

great class, Misa sensei! it helped me a lot, since this "emotional" aspect of passive voice used in japanese, doesn't really exist in portuguese, my mother language (at least, it's not actually used). anyway, it was really helpful.

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Stumbled across your channel a few days ago and all your lessons have been wonderful. I've been specifically looking for something about the passive form of verbs, and this was fantastic! I hope you do transitive and intransitive verbs soon because I think your teaching methods might finally allow me to wrap my head around those :p Thanks a bunch for your content :D

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You are such great teacher. I’m knocked out.

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You are wonderful Misa sensei! For as long as I have been living in japan and never ever have I meet anyone who could explain your language as exacting and clear. Even non-native speaks who seemed fluent in Japanese never seemed to be able to explain the language as well as you do. I have been in a relationship with a bilingual Japanese native for over 20 years and she never once describe her native language to me in any other way then 'use your imagination'. Well, when a language is centered on ambiguity, as I have been lead to believe, as あいまい is so frequently used in Japanese, using my imagination always lead me to frustration. Thank you for demystifying your language and inspiring me to try once again to learn and acquire the language.

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thank you Misa Sensei. really appreciate the outside the box (and books) examples because of the nuances. well explained. love all your lessons. arigatou gozaimasu!

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oh god I'm really looking for explaination of passive form. then you created this. thank you so much sensei!!

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I hope you are at a intermediate level now by watching her videos.

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thank you for the lesson Misa sensei!!! this was so incredibly helpful.

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Omg ive asked so many japanese people about how to use the passive and none of them could explain it as well as this. Sooo helpful!!!! ありがとう!!

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Your lessons are incredibly helpful. Thank you!

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[@1980rlquinn]

A note on the passive voice in English: The passive voice is not "bad," though American grade school prescriptivists like to harp on it out of recent tradition. Many people cannot even correctly identify the passive voice in English or even the various passive verb forms. It's a very flexible form used frequently in both speech and text. Like any verb construction, it helps communicate a particular nuance, and, despite its vilification among Americans, can actually clarify the responsible agent of an action. If anyone reading this is interested in identifying and understanding English passives better, I'd recommend searching for the "Language Log" blog out of the University of Pennsylvania. The linguist writers cover passives as well as other language topics in detail.

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1980rlquinn most people are shitty at grammar and can’t write that well, so of course they can’t identify it...

[@miloradowicz]

What does it mean to not be able to identify? Don't you just look and see it?

[@alan9garcia]

15 minutes in and this has explained so much. I've always seen the passive form but never really quiet understood it till now

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Thanks for another great video, this grammar has been particularly tricky while learning from immersion.

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Now I understand this passive form . Thank you❤❤

[@reenbenkyou]

このレッスンは本当にありがとうございました！

[@wintershaker1]

Misa I was having a lot of problems understanding passive from just my textbook and this video just let me felt like I understood and cleared my doubts about this form. Thanks a lot!

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Nicely explained Thank you dear you are a very good teacher

[@mrmatz408]

There was a ton of useful information in here for me. Until today, I had only thought of the passive form in Japanese to be equivalent to that in English, and it's nothing at all like it! Wow!

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香港から。ミサさんのレッスンがいつも役だっています。ありがとう❣️

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hello, Sensei🖐 l am learning again and decided to rewatch your video tutorials.

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Thank you for making passive form understandable and way simpler to use than I thought!

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literally the most informative channel on KZbin

[@bude8234]

The "passive form" of Japanese is really the "receptive form". That is, a person or thing receives a thing or an act, or something acts upon a thing. This is what I think you were going for with the "victim" comparison. If you think of this form in the receptive sense, it makes more sense, and the particle use is easier to understand as well.

[@alesh2275]

Exactly 受身形

[@Massflavour]

もう他の教科書でこの文法を勉強しましたが、色んな面白く例文があるので、この動画も勉強に実用的なものだと思います。 教えてくれました、ありがとうございます！

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So funny that when I reach new chapters in Genki2, you teach the grammar that I've just learned 😁 nice companion.

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Using capitalized letters is such a good way to visualize rising intonation.

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Wow Misa your explanation was great I understand how it works now thank you

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Thank you Misa, it's a very difficult thing to understand, but not when it is explained by you.

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Thank you so much for these videos! It's helping me with my language class. Now I have to stop being shy and speak.

[@Keiko-Bob]

Finally I understand passive form❤

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i was searching for materials to understand passive form and this was one of the best explained video i ever watched, thanks a lot for the effort and detailed explanation, really appreciate it

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this is exactly what i needed, one week before my exams. thanks for explaining it so clearly.

[@yanoryam]

This was the first time i really got passive tense. i struggled with textbooks and barely any examples and just no real context of how it's perceived in japan and this was so incredibly helpful thank you so much.

[@maysengpan9300]

Thank you so much... you made everything so clear...

[@elizabethcassidy9276]

This video was so helpful! I've been struggling with Passive Forms and this practice and explanation really helped! Please do a video on Causative Forms next!!

[@Elizzabeth2]

am I the only one that clicked from the Passive form and not the first part? I didn't even see that part first, btw ありがとうございます :D

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This lesson was very helpful! It's hard to understand all this by studying alone. どうもありがとう、みさ先生！

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you are the best Misa Sensei. Looking forward for more free lessons tutorial with you

[@SarahGonzalez]

watching this video (and other videos) for the nth time until I remember and master it hahaha. Thank you so much

[@Samurai_Kid]

Always I love your videos, very useful Misa

[@erikglesne3313]

thanks for teaching us how to avoid confusing it with potential form! (:

[@Mikelaxo]

I've noticed that Japanese people use some conjugations in the same way that soanish speakers do. For example, in spanish we can also yse the passive form to express that we are "annoyed" at what has been done

[@revangerang]

It makes sense that the common way is to use the speaker’s perspective, since it’s also common to just omit the subject if it’s obvious

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you are the best teacher i have ever come across in my entire life. :0

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手伝ってくれてありがとうございました。今大学で日本語を勉強していますけど毎日新しいぶんぽを学ぶなのにまだ全てのを分かりません。でもみさ先生のビデオが本当に日本語を学ぶことが手伝います！＜３

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Misa-sensei I absolutely love your videos, you cram so much information into each one and they help me so much! It's clear you put a lot of work into each video and I wanted to say thank you! ❤

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Another AMAZING LESSON! Thank you, Misa sensei! So glad to be a PATREON :D

[@szelag]

This is a really good video. To me this helps explain how / why it's more common in Japanese to omit explicitly stating the subject while telling a story. In English it's typical to keep the same voice and change subjects, whereas it according to this, in Japanese it's more common to keep the subject constant and change to passive voice to express actions done by someone else. Interesting!

[@ambulette]

Thanks! This was very helpful.

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Goodnight and may God bless you all and your family's. Thank Godfor all he has given you and pray for forgiveness though prayer AMEN.

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I hope you are at a intermediate level now by watching her videos.

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I really love your videos. This helped me a lot. I really appreciate all the explanations.

[@user-fu6xh1pd9c]

thanks a lot for your videos. Yes I noticed that you may have to do a video for transitive and intransitive verbs. I always remember with the verb to close like the announcement in the JR . "ドアがしまります and the phrase Tanaka san close the door たなかさんはドアをしめます。

[@akkimylo3286]

Excellent video as usual! As a suggestion, I think a video on のです/んです would help a lot with one of the more confusing parts of grammar a lot of us have encountered.

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やっと見られました。Really loved it. 大好きだった。

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This is my first time to comment on youtube. I would like to commend you for making this video. It helped me a lot to improve my japanese grammar.

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You are doing God's work. I don't have words to describe how much you help. But to me it's hard because it's too much information to understand hahha. But better more than less. Thank you :)

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Your videos are amazing! ^^ Btw it would great if you make a video about how to use し when you list multiple things because I don't see the difference with たり form みさ先生、ありがとう ^_^

[@ertxxx]

寝る VS 寝られる example is a bit strange to me: I was fallen asleep by 後輩？ In that example, literally it is strange to me. Btw, your videos are all perfectly useful and you are a good teacher with a good presentation! I rarely watch a 30 mins youtube video repeatedly from beginning to the end. (even for each video). Keep up your good works!!

[@BlueBird-zj8xc]

When using the passive form, the action doesn't have to be made directly towards you. It can mean that you are upset because of it only. So when 後輩 falls asleep, the subject doesn't have to be "you". It can only mean that "he fell asleep and you're not happy with it", and that's all. You don't have to be physically involved in the action.

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My favorite teacher❤️

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Hi Ms. Misa. Thank you so much for your hardwork. I learned a lot from you. You are such an amazing teacher👍🏻👍🏻

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Your lessons are the best! Could you do a lesson on VERB+させる? I don't understand how to use it

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I can't believe I can answer this but I think I can Suru is to do But saseru is if your forced or if you allow to do So like verb+ を+させる Sorry if. Maybe you already know this. I'm a nooby

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Dear.misa.iam.verry.happy.becauseyour.teaching.is.verry.usefull.for.japanese.learners..thank.youverymuch

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You explained clearly! Thank you very much!

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OMG soo helpful. Thank you so much!!

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A lesson just on 開く (あく vs ひらく) and 開ける (あける vs ひらける) would be much appreciated

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Love the way you explain everything in detail. Easy to understand. Learning a lot from here. But can you please shorten the time. Like around 20 minutes. Cuz mon to sat sun is too long. 😂😂😂😂

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Sensei plz upload a video about ( yappari )thank you.

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she made a video on yabai it was really good... and yappari would be interesting too..