How to use "待つ" in the indirect passive? No one likes to wait, so I thought "{}" would be a great verb to use to practice the indirect passive ( _suffering_ passive) of an **intransitive** verb. However, I'm having trouble probably because "" can also be **transitive**. I used this sentence as a model: > > " _A woman with a deceased husband is called a widow._ " I tried to use "" as I would use "", but it doesn't seem to work because the person who is waiting is also doing the suffering. The model has the "" dying and then another person, "", suffering. I talked with a native speaker. She said the problem is that "" can both be transitive and intransitive, and that fact is critical for suffering passive. I'm not convinced. I think the problem is that the person who waits also suffers. But, I'm not sure how to untie that and create suffering passive with used as intransitive.

How about this sentence?

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In this sentence, the cat is waiting for my carelessness, and I am suffering from it. This is transitive, but the object is not a person.

People usually suffers from waiting, not making others wait. And, that is why it is hard to use as the indirect passive verb.

I googled and found a few other examples.

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Someone is waiting. I think this one is intransitive.

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Knowledge and scholarship waits for something.

The last one is a little bit different.

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This one is not suffering passive but respecting.