The use of affective passive

[ArthurK]

Hey! I've only just finished Genki 2, so I can't really read/listen to native material yet. However, something I learned in the last chapters of that textbook bothers me a little bit. How often is the affective passive used? It may have different names, so I'll provide an example:

私は父に死なれました。

I was died by my father? This seems like such a bizarre concept to me. Do Japanese people even see this as passive voice? Or do they simply use it when describing actions by other people which have affected them in a negative way?

Thanks!

 

[Toritoribe]

The latter. It's used as 父は亡くなりました and the speaker/writer was adversely affected by it.

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取られる / ときと / 次の情報 / がいんです | Japan Forum

止められる / 入るはずです / 登ったりロープ / させられる | Japan Forum

 

[ArthurK]

The latter. It's used as 父は亡くなりました and the speaker/writer was adversely affected by it.

Is this grammatical structure widely used then?

 

[Toritoribe]

Quite commonly used, as you can see in the examples in the threads I linked above.

 

[ArthurK]

Right, thank you very much!