〜させられる (~saserareru) — can't help feeling ~ (something makes you)

Someone's work, a film or an event stirs a feeling or thought in you — 'it made me feel ~'.

Formula (सूत्र ढाँचा)

N + に（は） + Vない [ない] + (さ)せられる

する → させられる

Grammar rule (व्याकरण नियम र परिभाषा)

When to use it

Your Japanese senior at the factory has worked there 20 years and still checks every item with care. You think to yourself: 「先輩の仕事ぶりには感心させられる」— 'I can't help admiring the way my senior works.'

Meaning

But here nobody is forcing anything: something outside — a person's attitude, a film, the news — pulls a feeling or thought out of you.
This meaning only comes with a few verbs of the mind: 感心する・考える・反省する・驚く・気づく.

How to attach

To attach it, first make the causing form (考えさせる), then add 「られる」: 考えさせられる; 「する」→ 「させられる」.
With う-verbs you usually hear the short form: 驚かされる・気づかされる.

Versus what you know

N4This is the causative-passive you learned — 「先輩に酒を飲まされた」(I was made to drink).
How it differs from 「(ら)れる」in the previous point: there a memory rises from inside by itself; here the cause is clearly outside and is marked with 「に／には」(彼の努力には驚かされる).
Link it with 「ずにはおかない」too — one scene, two angles: 「この映画は人を考えさせずにはおかない」(from the film's side) and 「この映画には考えさせられた」(from my side).

Watch out

The key rule: action verbs like 飲む・残業する don't take this meaning — with them it goes back to 'I was forced to'.

Examples (उदाहरणहरू)

彼の丁寧な仕事ぶりには、いつも感心させられる。

かれのていねいなしごとぶりには、いつもかんしんさせられる。

I'm always impressed by how carefully he works.

How it is built (कसरी बन्यो) 丁寧な仕事ぶりには = by his careful way of working (an outside cause, with 「には」) → 感心する = to be impressed → 「する」 → 「させられる」 = I can't help being impressed.

被災地のボランティアの話を聞いて、いろいろと考えさせられた。

ひさいちのボランティアのはなしをきいて、いろいろとかんがえさせられた。

Hearing the stories of volunteers in the disaster area gave me a lot to think about.

How it is built (कसरी बन्यो) ボランティアの話を聞いて = hearing the volunteers' stories (the cause) → 考える = to think → 考え → 「させられた」 = what I heard made me think.

日本で働いてみて、時間を守る大切さに気づかされた。

にほんではたらいてみて、じかんをまもるたいせつさにきづかされた。

Working in Japan made me realize how important it is to be on time.

How it is built (कसरी बन्यो) 日本で働いてみて = having actually worked in Japan (the cause) → 気づく = to realize → short form of 気づかせられる: 気づか + 「された」 = the experience made me realize.

Knowledge check (मिनी ज्ञान जाँच)

Question: 1/3

「若い選手たちのまじめな練習ぶりには、感心＿＿。」— fill the blank.

💡 Hint: First the causing form, then 「られる」.