わたしはおこられた。Can it mean both having gotten angry and that someone was angry at you?


わたしはおこられた。Someone got mad at me. (I was being mad.)

This answer was given here by what I presume to be a native.
<http://yesjapan.com/YJ6/question/840/what-is-the-difference-between-suru-and-
sareru>.

Do the brackets mean it has two possible meanings that you have to discern
from context or is the bracketed meaning an explanation of the first (which
would make the unbracketed statement a bad English transtlation)?




> わたしはおこられた。Can it mean both having gotten angry and that someone was angry at
> you?

No, わたしはおこられた means "I got yelled at (by someone)", and not "I was being mad".

> Active: 「XXさんがわたしをおこった（≂しかった）。」  
>  "XX-san yelled at me. / scolded me."  
>  ↓  
>  Passive: 「 **わたしは** （XXさんに） **おこられた** （≂しかられた）。」  
>  " _I got yelled at / was scolded_ (by XX-san)."

