Be made to do A
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僕は先生に毎晩三時間英語を勉強させられました。
I was made by my teacher to study English for three hours every night.
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給食の時、生徒は先生に野菜を全部食べさせられました。
During school lunch, the students were forced by the teacher to eat all of the vegetables.
Getting the sentences
1. Determine if it's a godan or ichidan verb
How do I determine the type of the verb?
2. Conjugating the verbs
Godan verbs
1. Change the last character from it's 'u' form to the 'a' form.
む (mu) => ま (ma)
す (su) => さ (sa)
う (u) => わ (wa)
ぬ (nu) => な (na)
つ (tsu) => た (ta)
ぶ (bu) => ば (ba)
く (ku) => か (ka)
ぐ (gu) => が (ga)
る (ru) => ら (ra)
2. Add せられる to the end.
1. Change the last character from it's 'u' form to the 'a' form.
む (mu) => ま (ma)
す (su) => さ (sa)
う (u) => わ (wa)
ぬ (nu) => な (na)
つ (tsu) => た (ta)
ぶ (bu) => ば (ba)
く (ku) => か (ka)
ぐ (gu) => が (ga)
る (ru) => ら (ra)
2. Add せられる to the end.
Ichidan verbs
1. Remove the る from the end of the verb
2. Add させられる to the end.
1. Remove the る from the end of the verb
2. Add させられる to the end.
Special cases
する (to do) is changed to させられる.
くる (to come) is changed to こさせられる.
する (to do) is changed to させられる.
くる (to come) is changed to こさせられる.
Conjugation examples
Let's conjugate the godan verb 書く/かく (to write):
Now let's conjugate the verb 食べる/たべる (to eat), which is an ichidan verb:
Basic Examples
Before we start: かく
1. かく -> かか
2. かか -> かかせられる (is made to write)
Now let's conjugate the verb 食べる/たべる (to eat), which is an ichidan verb:
Basic Examples
Before we start: たべる
1. たべる -> たべ
2. たべ -> たべさせられる (is made to eat)
Abbreviations for Causative-Passive
Fortunately, a shortened form exists for most of the causative passive forms of godan verbs (the left column):
Please note that verbs ending in す cannot be abbreviated this way:
けす => けさせられる => けさされる
かう => かわせられる => かわされる
よむ => よませられる => よまされる
しぬ => しなせられる => しなされる
まつ => またせられる => またされる
よぶ => よばせられる => よばされる
かく => かかせられる => かかされる
いそぐ => いそがせられる => いそがされる
はいる => はいらせられる => はいらされる
よむ => よませられる => よまされる
しぬ => しなせられる => しなされる
まつ => またせられる => またされる
よぶ => よばせられる => よばされる
かく => かかせられる => かかされる
いそぐ => いそがせられる => いそがされる
はいる => はいらせられる => はいらされる
Please note that verbs ending in す cannot be abbreviated this way:
けす => けさせられる => けさされる
Related Expressions
Causative/させる (使役)
Where this grammar is found
Grammar usage notes
What seperates causative and causative-passive is that in causative-passive, the person being forced to do something is affected by it. For example.
父は車を洗わせた。 Dad made me wash the car.
父に車を洗わされて、いやでした。 Dad made me wash the car, and it was annoying.
If you didn't mind washing the car, you would use causative. But because you didn't want to wash the car, and were annoyed, you would use causative-passive.
父は車を洗わせた。 Dad made me wash the car.
父に車を洗わされて、いやでした。 Dad made me wash the car, and it was annoying.
If you didn't mind washing the car, you would use causative. But because you didn't want to wash the car, and were annoyed, you would use causative-passive.
With the causative passive, use が (or は) to mark the person being made to do something, に to mark the person who made them do it, and を for the thing they were made to do.
生徒たちは先生に宿題をさせられた。 The students were made to do their homework by their teacher.
Contrast with causative particle usage: が (or は) for the person who makes someone do something, and に for the person they make do it.
先生は生徒たちに宿題をさせた。 The teacher made the students do their homework.
生徒たちは先生に宿題をさせられた。 The students were made to do their homework by their teacher.
Contrast with causative particle usage: が (or は) for the person who makes someone do something, and に for the person they make do it.
先生は生徒たちに宿題をさせた。 The teacher made the students do their homework.
Is the drop in pitch after の normal? Does の always do that? Is the next word after it all low-pitch even if の follows a word that’s not accent-final?
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