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Passive Form in Japanese
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This is missing one major thing that helps understand actually spoken Japanese: ら抜き(ranuki), the fact that most people drop the ら in られる. So, e.g. たべられる becomes たべれる.
There's an extra る in 降るられた, BTW.
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