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〜れる・〜られる (passive) - passive verb ending

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Formation

Verb (nai stem) ＋　れる・られる

(Grp I)
　〜れる
　話す　→　話さ.れる (be told)
　聞く　→　聞かれる (be heard)

(Grp II)
　〜られる
　食べる　→　食べ.られる (be eaten)
　立てる　→　立て.られる (be built)

(irreg)
　来る　→　来られる
　する　→　される

Compare the passive and active examples below

(active)
　子供が水を飲みました。
　The child drank the water
(passive)
　水が子供に飲まれました。
　the water was drunk by the child

The passive of group 2 verbs is the same as the potential and honorific.
Which can only be discovered by the context:

先生は納豆が食べられる
　the が gives this away as potential
potential: My teacher can eat nattou

先生は納豆を食べられた
　could be many things:

honorific: my Teacher ate nattou
potential: my teacher could eat nattou
indirect passive: someone ate natto (~and my teacher was unhappy about it)

There is also an indirect passive, which doesn't exist in English. It
implies the other person is annoyed by the action.

Perhaps it could be translated as 'person A did something AT person B'

ビールは田中に飲まれた
the beer was drunk by Tanaka

先生は田中にビールを飲まれた
(The teacher was drunk beer at by Tanaka)
The teacher was annoyed by Taro drinking beer.

some more formation examples

For 一段　（いちだん　−　える、いる　ending) verbs you
essentially drop the る and tack on a　られる.

For 五段　（ごだん　〜う　ending) verbs you change the last
syllable so that it ends
in 〜あ　and add　れる　

話す　　話される was spoken
聞く　　聞かれる was listened/heard
泳ぐ　　泳がれる was swum
待つ　　待たれる was carried
死ぬ　　死なれる was killed
会う　　会われる　was met
作る　　作られる was made
呼ぶ　　呼ばれる was called

--- Examples ---
水が子供に飲まれました。
The water was drunk by the child.

このビルは二年前に建てられた。
This building was built two years ago.

携帯コンテンツの海外事業開発を任されています。
development of overseas mobile contents is entrusted to me.

長い間待ってやっと私の名前が呼ばれた。
After waiting for a long time, finally my name was called.

あいつにしてやろうと思ったのに、逆にあいつにやられてしまった。
What I wanted to do to him, he did to me instead.

彼は光に吸い寄せられた。
He was drawn in by the light.

言われなくても、分かってるよ.
Lit: Without being told, I know that already!