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Passive form Print E-mail
To form the passive, add -rareru, raremasu to the stems of v-stem verbs, and -areru, -aremasu to the stems of c-stem verbs. For the negative, add -rarenai, -raremasen to the stems of v-stem verbs, and -arenai, -aremasen to the stems of c-stem verbs.

トラコはねずみを食べました。
Torako wa nezumi o tabemashita.
Torako ate the mouse.

ねずみはトラコに食べられました。
Nezumi wa Torako ni taberaremashita.
The mouse was eaten by Torako.

ねずみはトラコに食べられませんでした。
Nezumi wa Torako ni taberaremasen deshita.
The mouse was not eaten by Torako.

トラコはねずと遊びました。
Torako wa nezumi to asobimashita.
Torako played with the mouse.

ねずみはトラコに遊ばれました。
Nezumi wa Torako ni asobaremashita.
The mouse was played with by Torako.


This page is a part of "Some Notes on Japanese Grammar" published for your personal use, with the kind permission of Keith Smillie (http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~smillie/)