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Is there any difference

Is there any difference between the potential (full) form for ru verbs, and neutral third person.

ie:
taberareta - could be eaten.
taberareta - was eaten

This has been "eating" me up for years. Maybe you could include something about the similarity somewhere?

Or maybe i read something wrong and this is not pertinent, (but I think that it is).


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