Loading ...How to express being made by someone to do something in Japanese - Passive Causative forms
After learning causative forms, you can now practice on learning passive causative forms. Passive causative forms can be use freely as long as you are not talking about the situation between you and the listener because it might be an offend in Japanese context. But of course, if you are close to the listener, it is alright to use it. Most of the time, it is use to talk about situations of yourself involving with others and not with the listener.
Let’s look at the chart below to see how we can change from the plain form to the causative form and then to the passive causative form.
| 食べる taberu (to eat) |
食べさせる tabesaseru |
食べさせられる tabesaserareru |
| 話す hanasu (to speak) |
話させる hanasaseru |
話させられる hanasaserareru |
| 歩く aruku (to walk) |
歩かせる arukaseru |
歩かせられる arukaserareru |
| 泳ぐ oyogu (to swim) |
泳がせる oyogaseru |
泳がせられる oyogaserareru |
| 呼ぶ yobu (to call) |
呼ばせる yobaseru |
呼ばせられる yobaserareru |
| 飲む nomu (to drink) |
飲ませる nomaseru |
飲ませられる nomaserareru |
| 死ぬ shinu (to die) |
死なせる shinaseru |
死なせられる shinaserareru |
| 作る tsukuru (to make) |
作らせる tsukuraseru |
作らせられる tsukuraserareru |
| 待つ matsu (to wait) |
待たせる mataseru |
待たせられる mataserareru |
| 洗う arau (to wash) |
洗わせる arawaseru |
洗わせられる arawaserareru |
Special verbs
する (to do) becomes させられる
くる (to come) becomes こらせられる
Alright, let’s analyst. To change from a causative form to a passive causative form, we need to add the -rareru られる. Let’s take たべさせる for an example, we drop the る and add the られる after it.
The picture on the left clearly shows how it changes from the plain form into the passive causative form. It just gets longer and longer. And it becomes a tongue twister. 
Japanese can be difficult in the beginning but if you keep on learning, it won’t be as difficult as you might have thought in the first place. Getting use to learning Japanese is a good way to overcome any unfamiliarity that you might come across in the future.
Let’s take a look at some Japanese sentence example
おかあさん に ケーキ を たべさせられました
I was made by my mom to eat cake.
To be able to form your own passive causative form, think of the situation as “being made to do something by someone”. And always add a に after any noun. Think of the に as the same meaning as “made by” Let’s look at one more example.
てんちょう に ぎんこう へor に いかさせられました
店長 に 銀行 へor に 行かさせられました
I was made by my store manager to go to the bank.
てんちょう、店長 means store manager
ぎんこう、銀行 means bank
へ is a particle to show direction only. (location only)
Passive causative forms can be quite a chore to understand and remember. Well, practice makes perfect.
Enjoy learning Japanese!
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