I am a beginner Japanese student, and I'm going through a song and translating
it. I am struggling to understand the word 誘われて in the first line. I
understand that the verb is 誘う; is this the -te form? I thought the -te form
would be 誘って.

The full context is this:

> 真っ白な景色にいま誘われて  
>  僕は行くよ まだ見ぬ世界へ

I would appreciate any help! Bonus points if you can guess the song :)
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て-form passive-voice
What is 誘われて (Sasowarete) in this song lyric?
誘われて is a て-form, but not of 誘う, which would be 誘って, as you correctly note.

Rather, it is the て-form of the passive conjugation of 誘う, which is 誘われる. 誘われて
would mean "(I) am/was invited", with the tense as usual determined by the
end-of-sentence verb.

Does that help you to piece together the rest of the translation?
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The base 誘う's te-form would be 誘って, but it's not just the basic 誘う.

> 誘う = base
>
> 誘われる = passive form
>
> 誘われて = passive form's te-form

In your song it indicates **to be** invite **d** by something/someone.
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誘われて is the passive -te form, usually understood by the final verb. However,
this -te form (as a standard grammatical construct) may simply end the first
part of a compound sentence, such as your example:

真っ白な景色にいま誘われて 僕は行くよ まだ見ぬ世界へ

and, as it were, the same is true of first sentence of KAWAKAMI Hiromi's short
story "Kamisama"

くまにさそわれて散歩に出る。

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<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JwYgd4zHvU>
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