Passive Tenses

“Even if you be otherwise perfect, you fail without humility.” – The Talmud

One really quick thing we have to look at before moving on to the meaty grammar part is the tenses. So far we’ve just been looking at present/positive form. When it comes to passive form, you can do past tense as well. Depending on the level of formality, you can use either ます form or past-tense dictionary form. It’s just like you learned before, except based off of られる.

たべられる → たべられた

たべられます → たべられました

はなされる → はなさられた

はなされます → はなされました

With passive form, it’s actually going to almost always be past-tense. You learned present tense first because the learning progression (i.e. getting to past tense, where you are now) is going to be a better experience that way. So, we’re here now, and that’s all that matters. This should be pretty easy, but can you do me a favor and convert the following verbs (they’re a mix of Group 1, Group 2, and exceptions, so watch out!) to past tense passive form? Once you’re able to do that, you’ll be ready, young grasshopper.

たべる → たべられた

だす → だされた

けす

aけされた

たてる

aたてられた

あつめる

aあつめられた

見る

a見られた

する

aされた

来る

a来られた(こられた)

入れる

a入られた

ふやす

aふやされた

つける

aつけられた

When you’re A-OK with these things, it’s time to get into the beefy stuff. Let’s just get right to it.

By finishing this page, you should be good with all the possible conversions for passive form. Now you’re ready to learn how the grammar part of passive form works

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