Causative-Passive Basics
Use the causative-passive to say someone was made to do something, often with a feeling of burden or lack of choice.
How to form the causative-passive
The causative-passive combines two ideas: someone causes an action, and the subject receives that pressure. Standard forms are important first: 書く → 書かせられる, 食べる → 食べさせられる, する → させられる, 来る → 来させられる.
書く → 書かせられる
write → be made to write
食べる → 食べさせられる
eat → be made to eat
する → させられる
do → be made to do
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