Postby community.japanese » October 23rd, 2015 8:17 am
マイケルさん、
こんにちは。はい、その通りですね。
しかし、敬語の可能性もあるかもしれません。
palver72202 san,
konnichiwa.
What マイケルsan said is correct.
However, 言われる also means ‘someone said (honorific expression).’
I don’t have the whole sentence so I don’t know which one…
For example,
私は母に「勉強しなさい」と言われた。
If the sentence structure is
Person A (this part can be omitted) は Person B に something と言われた, the 言われた is the past form of the passive.
That means ‘I was told ‘study!’ by my mother.
The other one
先生がテストの予定を言われた。
If the sentence structure is
Person A (person in higher position) が/は something を/と 言われた, the 言われた is an honorific expression.
My teacher told about a schedule of tests to us. (showing respect to the teacher)
Yuki 由紀
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