Japanese Dative Passive Structure

Foreign languages in higher education are increasingly diverse, one of which is Japanese language learning. This is so that language learners have enough capital to compete in a multilingual global world. Language learning is a process where learners perform a language activity in accordance with the language rules they learn. These differences in linguistic rules need to be considered by language teachers and learners. Based on the differences in these rules, in this study, the foreign language learners referred to are learners whose first language (L1) is a local language, and Indonesian as the language learning (LL). The focus of this research is the difference in Japanese structure and rules. This is related to the use of the dative marker ni, verb conjugation in the process of the Japanese passive structure, translation, and the meaning of the Japanese passive sentence that appears. The research method used is descriptive qualitative method. The results of this study show that (1) the construction that forms the Japanese passive verb is ~rareru/~reru, (2) if the actor that appears in the passive structure is animate, then the marker used is ni, (3) if the actor that appears in the passive structure is inanimate, then the marker used is ~ni yotte, (4) Another uniqueness of the Japanese passive is if Japanese passive structures that use intransitive verbs, the translation into Indonesian becomes unacceptable. So it will become acceptable in translation, if the Japanese passive structure is changed to the Japanese active structure.