The Analysis of Three Passive Verbs

The following thesis analyzes the meaning of and relationship between and , three passive verbs i'n Japanese. and are different when they express different relationships between the speaker and the subject and complement of the sentence. On the contrary, and express the same relationship between speaker. listener and subject. complement, but the direction is opposite to each other. so the conclusion is that is a passive verb, while and are antonymous, so the two can be used interchangeably by shifting the position of the subject and complement, with the basic meaning unchanged, but only on a certain one, and the tone will be slightly different.