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Given the following sentence structure, I am wondering how one differentiates
the usage of 出る in the following.

> 明日のパーティーに出られますか？

The usage of the partial に and the られる suggests a honorific passive
conjugation _Will you attend tomorrow's party?_ , but by the same token, I
suppose it could be the potential _Are you able to attend tomorrow's party?_

Also, how would this change if it was simply:

> 明日のパーティーに出ますか？
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Differentiating honorific passive and potential conjugations of 出る
This probably isn't the answer you were looking for, but: it has to be
differentiated using context (via. the subject of the sentence, as well as
circumstance).

While this is probably pretty obvious, to break it out a little:

  * If you say 「（太郎さん、）明日のパーティーに出られますか？」 to your coworker 太郎, it is pretty unambiguously the potential.
  * If you say 「（先生、）明日のパーティーに出られますか？」 to your teacher, it is ambiguous.

This type of ambiguity is quite often resolved by context though (as one might
expect):

> 「太郎はパーティーに出るけど、次郎先生はどうかな。」  
>  「次郎先生もパーティーに出られる。」
>
> 「明日のパーティ、誰が出ますか？」  
>  「次郎先生が出られます。」

A point here is that, in the cases it is ambiguous, it is often not ambiguous
in a way that particularly matters:

  * "No I can't" logically implies "no I won't"
  * "Yes I will" logically implies "yes I can"
  * "Yes I can" usually suggests "yes I will" unless specifically stated otherwise
  * "No I won't" is probably the hardest response to deal with if you were asking about capability, and in this case you would probably just ask for clarification.
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