日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 8

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>>215
passive and progressive combined to make passive progressive. "is being ~"

叩かれている>"is being hit"
言われている>"Is being said"
送られている>"is being sent"

Japanese is an agglutinative language, which means that words are built up from smaller parts and conjugated this way. We can build rather long words from smaller parts. It would be impractical and not very useful to try and cover all these combinations, so get used to this manner of conjugation.

Also, translating for Japanese practice, especially when you are at such a low level, is not the best way to go about learning a language. You should learn to understand Japanese before trying to translate into English. Understanding a language and translating it into another language are two very different things.