What does this mean?

> 植物が成長を妨げられる。

Can I get a more detailed overlook of 貰わせる and rareru and saseru and all those
things depending on whether wo ni ga or whatever is used. It's really
frustrating to not be able to understand how their relations work with each
other and who you are referring to.

For example:

> ネロが家族を殺された。

Does that mean that Nero had his family killed (His family was killed by
someone else and they got killed.)?
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grammar passive-voice
How to understand this use of "sareru" in 「植物が成長を妨げられる」?
> 植物が成長を妨げられる

OP - What does this mean?

  * "[The] plant[s] had [their] growth stunted." (by something)

> ネロが家族を殺された.

OP - Does that mean that Nero had his family killed (His family was killed by
someone else and they got killed.) ?!?

  * "Nero had [his] family killed." 

**Not meaning specifically that he asked someone to kill his family** , but
rather that he **_had this happen_** to him. He received the result of the
action.

(Though Roman Emperor Nero did kill his mother, so there might be other
possible interpretations.)

を＋…られる・される（を＋受身形）is usually indicating that the subject/topic is **not the
actor performing the action** , but rather is **the receiver of the result of
the action** (usually something undesirable).

There is a very good explanation in Japanese about this kind of construction
here:  
<http://www.tomojuku.com/blog/passive/passive-4/>
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Thanks for your responses.

So basically, there are both indirect passive and direct passive

> 俺たちは(ネロに)殺されかけたんだ。 direct

and

> 俺たちは(妻に)(兄弟を)殺された。 indirect

The direct says we were almost killed by Nero, while the indirect explains
that we had one of our brothers killed by our mother (we didn't necessarily
have a part in his killing).

If you would only write 俺たちは殺された, then there wouldn't be possible for us to
tell whether it was direct or indirect passive, but I think it would be safe
to assume that it was a direct passive, at least judging from the context and
the fact that you need more information to describe an indirect passive.

Again, thanks for your link about passives, helped a lot.

Btw, how do I log out? This is an alt account because Stack Exchange doesn't
allow me to find forgotten accs but instead has me make new accounts. Thanks.
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