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My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 7
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Translation
Agnes Murakami Michiko, sorry. Were you waiting?
Michiko Tanaka You didnt keep me waiting too long. Long time! Did you lose weight?
Agnes Murakami Once a while I get that, but Im the same. You, youve become more beautiful!
Michiko Tanaka There you go again.
Agnes Murakami This place is really chic, isnt it?
Michiko Tanaka A nice atmosphere, right?
Hiroshi Matsuda Ahh, there they are! Michiko!
Yusuke Hashimoto May I sit here?
Michiko Tanaka Please, go ahead.
Agnes Murakami Huh?
Hiroshi Matsuda Oh, so this is the girl Michiko was talking about? Wow, youre very pretty. Umm, may
I sit down next to you?
Yusuke Hashimoto Hey man, youre a little forward there.
Agnes Murakami Umm, uhh, Michiko... whats going on here?
Michiko Tanaka Oh, sorry. Ive been asked to introduce you. This is Hiroshi Matsuda. Hes a co-work-
er at my oIfce.
Hiroshi Matsuda Hey, hello. And, this is my friend from middle school. Call him Yusuke Hashimoto .
Although he looks like this, hes a doctor.
Yusuke Hashimoto Hello, nice to meet you. Hiroshi brought me with him today.
Michiko Tanaka A doctor! How cool!
Yusuke Hashimoto No, no, no. Its no big thing.
Hiroshi Matsuda Agnes Murakami, right? I heard about you from Michiko, and thought that itd be
nice to meet you.
Agnes Murakami What is this? A mixer?? Could it be that I was used?
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Todays lesson covers the passive tense of Class 1 verbs. Passive voice refers to a sentence structure where-
in the recipient of some action becomes the grammatical subject of the sentence. In J apanese, the passive
voice is indicated by verbs ending in reru.
Technically speaking, there are two kinds oI passive voice in Japanese. The frst, called 'direct passive
voice (chokusetsu ukemi) roughly corresponds to the normal English passive form. The second, called
'indirect passive voice (kansetsu ukemi) has no easy equivalent in English.
Direct passive voice takes either the direct or indirect object of the equivalent active sentence, and uses it
as the grammatical subject. The particle ni is normally used to indicate the agent (the doer of the action),
however, when one wishes to place additional stress on the agent, ni yotte may be used. Kara may also be
used to indicate the agent in cases where a physical object has been given from the agent.
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Sensei ni shikarareta.
I was scolded by my teacher.
Indirect passive voice has no easy English equivalent, however, it is similar in meaning to the colloquial
Iorm 'to up and do something to me. (See example below.) It is used to indicate that an (oIten negative)
infuence has had some eIIect on the (usually human) subject. Because this passive is oIten used when the
speaker is showing empathy for something that happens to the subject that is outside of his/her realm of
control, this passive Iorm is oIten called 'the troubled passive (meiwaku no ukemi). As an example of its
usage and translation, consider the following sentence.
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Tsuma ni nigerareta.
My wife up and left me.
Grammar Points
Vocabulary - ,
Kanji Kana Romaji English
;' ' mataseru to keep waiting
' ' yaseru to become thin, to lose weight
1, 1`| oshare stylish
, .' funiki atomosphere, mood
'`' `' zzshii impudent, shameless
| `: shokuba workplace
] dry colleague
` . gkon mixer
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Formation oI the passive is independent oI verb type. Simply change the fnal u into an a and add reru. The
irregular verbs suru and kuru, however, have irregular passive conjugations that must be independently
memorized.
Class Dictionary Form Passive
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hanasu
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hanasareru
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suru
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sareru
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kuru
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korareru
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