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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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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what about the water was drank by dog

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​@@hritesh7 水は犬に飲まれていた。

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@@kitsun3Pearce7 「飲まれました」ですね

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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)

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

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That clickbait title though haha

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どう？

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

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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.

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

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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」?

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Yes! :)

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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

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

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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!!

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

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Now I understand this passive form . Thank you❤❤

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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.

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

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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.

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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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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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Finally I understand passive form❤

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Good video. Thank you for your time and passion. I really appreciate it. Based in the videos I've seen you seem like a really great earthling.

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