What kind of inflection is occuring in passive vb + かかった? I was using Jisho.org to help me figure out the tense of the following passive verb > when it decides to combine (passive form) with thereby forming "" as a 'recognized' whole verb (recognized meaning its fully underlined in the link thingy). I still don't know what the two 's mean, although my bad gut intuition is saying that the first is a question particle, thereby making it a passive question parsed by .... I really am confused as to what it means and how to parse the segments correctly. > Original sentence: ……,

> Verb in {} (continuative form) +

means:

> "to be about to (verb)", "to be on the point of (verb)ing", etc.

The first verb used in this expression can be either in the active or passive voice form. Active or passive, Japanese verbs still inflect in the same manner.

**_Active voice_** : is the of

**** = "was about to kill"

**_Passive voice_** : is the of

**** = "was about to be killed"

The two 's cannot be separated as is just one verb.