「Learn Japanese」 Passive Form (Simple)

「Learn Japanese」 Passive Form (Simple)

The Japanese language has more than one version of Passive Form construction. The simple Passive Form is essentially identical to the Passive Form construction used in the English language in which the direct object or the indirect object of the Active Form of the sentence becomes instead the subject of the sentence, thereby making the sentence more “passive.”

Example(s):

私は「地上最強の男」と呼ばれる。
Watashi wa “chijyou saikyou no otoko” to yobareru.
(I am called “the world’s strongest man.”)

この店はよく知られている。
Kono mise wa yoku shirarete iru.
(This shop is well known.)

昨日先輩に褒められた。
Kinou senpai ni homerareta.
(Yesterday, my senior praised me.)

ジョージ・ワシントンは彼女に頭がいいと言われた。
George Washington wa kanojo ni atama ga ii to iwareta.
(George Washington was told by her that he’s smart.)

ルームメイトに洗濯を頼まれた。
Roommate ni sentaku o tanomareta.
(I was asked by my roommate to do the laundry.)

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Edit(s):

[eclmist]

The biggest question is how the dog became the cat 1:25

[gabetatoe]

I got distracted by the amount of times you adjust/touched your glasses xDDD

[Rotkop]

Hey man, thanks for the video. Great content! Making videos itself is a learning process and I'm sure you'll get (even) better! Cheers!

[atoymoko]

It really helps a lot. Suggestion: it would be good or better if you the talking Video or put it in the corner, because it's kinda disturbing.
Anyway, the whole thing is well explained and detailed.
ありがとうございます

[iSnakie]

Thanks for the video, it was really helpful. I think it would be good if you compared the example sentences with its active translation.

[brianm]

How can you tell if “に” means “from” and not “”to” ?

[majinvegetak]

I’m really surprised you only covered ごだん verbs. I did skim it though maybe I missed it

[jezavillarosa]

hi may i know why the ga particle is use in passive verb. hope you can help me thank you in advance

[alexlozinski]

So intransitive verbs can't be used with simple passive, right?

[THROWEMOFFBUILDINGS]

not sure if using a big ass quote as an object was a good idea but thanks anyway, your explanation made things a tiny little bit clearer.

[四方八方]

By the way, passive form is like N4 grammar, so you don't need to translate every word and particle in the example sentences.

[ste]

Also, could you give me an example of a sentence with the passive form of "kuru" (to come)? I can't seem to find one

[terryterry]

could i ask you a question ?
if i eat, i will wash hand
moshi tabetara, te o arau
tabereba, te o arau
what is difference between two sentence .

[EinsteinJR]

So you take the direct object and transform it into a cat.

[ste]

Why the second example is 'kono mise wa yoku shirarete iru'? Can't it simply be 'kono mise wa yoku shirareru'? What's the difference in the meaning between the two constructions used in this scenario?

[CENB]

Thank you, great video but why did you move a lot?, quite distractive but if that can't be help then it's ok.

[enrikebunbury]

Didnt understand a DAMN thing the first 2:50 minutes.

[souhail]

wonderful as always, but lose the music brother, it would be much better.:)

[rabbitanon]

Good video! But too much body movement >, >

[adamc]

It would be insulting to compliment you on your english.... is it your first language?