What is the difference between もらう and もらえる in this sentence?


> 新年から運動につきあってもらえるのはありがてぇんだけど

I understand the speaker is grateful because the other character accompanied
him from the beginning of the new year to do exercise, but what does もらえる
communicate differently from using もらう here?




Actually in this context, the dictionary form もらう is nearly unusable. The
vanilla もらう has a connotation that the said action is granted, or expected. It
is okay if you use it in the past form, or in front of a third party, but
sounds as if you are "forcing" the hearer when spoken towards themselves.

Thus if you want to tell the other you are "grateful", not only the fact being
"beneficial" to you, you need to say like you're glad that you _can_ (= be
lucky to; be accepted to) have them to do something, and that is what the
potential form does here.

