Going back over these two tenses in Tae Kims grammar guide I am a bit confused as to what the difference is between them. Taking an example, wouldn’t: 彼が私に食べさせた and 彼が私に食べさせられた both mean I made him eat? If yes, is there a difference?

Causative vs causative-passive

Sezme December 31, 2018, 3:02pm 8

But if something is being passed to the subject, doesn’t that make the subject the object?

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