Passive Sentences
When you are inconvenienced by something somebody else has done, you can express your dissatisfaction using the passive sentence.
Basic make up of a passive sentence:
私はともだちにくるまをつかわれました。
(victim)は (villian)に (evil act).
I had my car used by a friend.
The victim is affected by an event. Marked with the particle は or が.
The villian preforms an action which causes the suffering. Marked with に.
The evil act is described with the passive form of a verb.
Forming passive verb forms:
ru–verbs: Drop the final -ru and add -rare-ru :食べる -> 食べられる
u-verbs: Drop the final -u and add -are-ru : はなす -> はなされる
irregular verbs:する -> される くる -> こられる
Passive forms of verbs conjugate as regular ru–verb.