What does 付き合わされる身になって mean?


I've come across two lines in some dialogue that used 付き合わされる身になって as follows:

  1. 悪ふざけに付き合わされる身になってよ
  2. 付き合わされる身になって欲しいわ

So far, I've only been able to find that 身になって is used to ask someone to put
themselves in the speaker's shoes. I'm unsure on the 付き合わされる part, but would
it be wrong to guess that the two lines above meaning the following?

  1. Put yourself in my shoes, having been forced to play along with this prank.
  2. I'd like you to put yourself in my shoes to see how I've been forced to play along.




> 「悪{わる}ふざけに付{つ}き合{あ}わされる身{み}になってよ。」
>
> 「付き合わされる身になって欲しいわ。」

This is a surprisingly tough one if literal translation is what one is after
because even though 「身になる」 is a set phrase, 「身」 is a noun and therefore, one
can grammatically insert the relative clause 「（悪ふざけに）付き合わされる」 to modify it in
Japanese. This sentence structure works with no problems in that language.

In English, however, how do you modify the noun "shoes" in the expression "to
put yourself in someone's shoes" by using a relative clause without creating
any grammatical clumsiness? Perhaps English-speakers would know how, but I do
not.

All I can say for sure is that from your TL attempts, you clearly seem to know
what these sentences mean. As long as you know that 「付き合わされる」 is in the
**causative passive-voice** form ("to be forced to play along"), actual
translations can come in different forms.




> 「悪{わる}ふざけに付{つ}き合{あ}わされる身{み}になってよ。」
>
> 「付き合わされる身になって欲しいわ。」

This is a surprisingly tough one if literal translation is what one is after
because even though 「身になる」 is a set phrase, 「身」 is a noun and therefore, one
can grammatically insert the relative clause 「（悪ふざけに）付き合わされる」 to modify it in
Japanese. This sentence structure works with no problems in that language.

In English, however, how do you modify the noun "shoes" in the expression "to
put yourself in someone's shoes" by using a relative clause without creating
any grammatical clumsiness? Perhaps English-speakers would know how, but I do
not.

All I can say for sure is that from your TL attempts, you clearly seem to know
what these sentences mean. As long as you know that 「付き合わされる」 is in the
**causative passive-voice** form ("to be forced to play along"), actual
translations can come in different forms.

