Receiving a treating as with 〜れる
Grammar Explanation: Receptive verbs with 〜れる
Cocoa wonders why it is that she didn’t like coffee before, but she’s crazy about the coffee Chino makes.
- チノ:
- 「でもココアさんは味の違いわからないじゃないですか」
- “But you don't know the difference in taste, right?”
- 「ただのカフェイン中毒ですよ」
- “That makes it just a caffine addiction.”
- “But you don't know the difference in taste, right?”
- ココア:
- 「中毒扱いされた…」
- “I got treated like an addict...”
- Literal: “I received addict treatment...”
- “I got treated like an addict...”
Key Points
1中毒扱いされた = “I got treated like an addict”
- 扱い after a noun means treating, labeling, or classifying someone as that thing.
- Cocoa is reacting to Chino’s カフェイン中毒 comment as if Chino has labeled her an addict.
2Ⓐ扱いする to Ⓐ扱いされる
- Ⓐ扱いする means “to treat someone as Ⓐ” or “to regard someone as Ⓐ”.
- The receptive form Ⓐ扱いされる means “to be treated as Ⓐ”.
3された is the past receptive of する
- する becomes される, and in past tense された.
- The sentence focuses on Cocoa receiving the treatment, not on Chino as the person doing it.
4Omitted subject: Cocoa is the receiver
- A fuller version would be 私が 中毒扱いされた or 私は …, depending on emphasis.
- The line leaves 私 out because the reaction is thought by Cocoa herself.
5Do not split the さ as sentence-ending さ
- In 扱いされた, the さ begins された, the receptive past of する.
- The structure is 中毒扱い + された, not 扱い + さ.
- さん is an honorific suffix attached to a person’s name to show respect and social distance, roughly equivalent to “Mr.”, “Ms.”, or “Mrs.” in English, though it’s used far more broadly and doesn’t specify gender or marital status.
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