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られる (rareru)

passive verb form; be done, be acted on

Meaning & usage

られる marks the passive, showing that the subject receives the action rather than performs it, as in be built, be eaten, or be scolded. For godan verbs, change the final u sound to the a sound and add れる, as in 作られる, while for ichidan verbs drop る and add られる, as in 食べられる. する becomes される and 来る becomes 来られる, and the doer is usually marked with に. For ichidan verbs this form is identical to the potential, so context decides the meaning.

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