Some events in our lives affect us negatively despite our hopes and efforts to avoid them. Japanese describe such circumstances through the use of passive sentences. In this lesson, we will learn how this is done and what implications such expressions have.

Passive sentences Transitive V (て-form)＋ある Vている間(に) V (て-form) ほしい ～くする・～にする・ようにする 盗降信経台風犬重初若送幸計遅配