Why is passive used here?

Asked Aug 29 '23 at 01:39

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珍しいですね　聖さんがお酒を飲まれるなんて

Sei who normally doesn't drink gets angry and starts drinking a lot of wine. The speaker is a maid and she thinks Sei is happy instead and says that.

I would have used 飲む. I know お酒に飲まれる (this), but it doesn't seem to be a mistake.

The subject and the agent should be the same: 聖が(聖に)お酒を飲まれるなんて. Maybe, it's something like "You let yourself drink alcohol", but it's not causative. I've never seen this usage before.

Please, make similar examples.

edited Aug 29 '23 at 03:29

asked Aug 29 '23 at 01:39

Haragurodanshi

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Without more context, I can't be sure, but at first glance, this looks like a use of the passive form as honorific use. I first heard this in real life in a taxi in Kyoto, when the driver asked us 「どこへ行【い】かれますか。」 No passive-ness intended, this was simply honorific use, as part of the driver showing politeness to us as customers and strangers. – Eiríkr Útlendi Aug 29 '23 at 02:09
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In this context, '飲まれる' is an honorified form of '飲む'. '聖さんが酒を飲む' -> '聖さんがお酒を飲まれる' – MNEMO Aug 29 '23 at 03:06
@EiríkrÚtlendi I've edited it. The speaker is in fact a maid. However, why didn't the taxi driver say どこへいらっしゃいますか? What's the difference? – Haragurodanshi Aug 29 '23 at 03:35
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"What's the difference?" → see verbs which are more frequently used to built the honorific passive forms – jarmanso7 Aug 29 '23 at 10:00

Why is passive used here?

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