[JLPT N4] Looks like a burglar broke in: どろぼうが＋[入ったみたいだ・入られたようだ・入ったかもしれなかった・入らせたそうだ]？
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[Practice Question]
A：となりの家に おまわりさんが来ているね。何かあったのかな。
B：どろぼうが（＿＿）よ。
*A：となりのいえに おまわりさんがきているね。なにかあったのかな。
B：どろぼうが（＿＿）よ。
1 入(はい)ったみたいだ
2 入(はい)られたようだ
3 入(はい)ったかもしれなかった
4 入(はい)らせたようだ
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[Answer]
A：となりの家におまわりさんが来ているね。何かあったのかな。
B：どろぼうが（1 入ったみたいだ）よ。
A: There’s a police officer at the house next door. I wonder what happened.
B: It looks like a burglar broke in.
〜みたいだ
= “it looks like ~” / “it seems that ~”
You see or hear something, and you think “probably ~.”
Look at the situation:
There is おまわりさん (a police officer) at the house next door.
B sees this and makes a guess about what happened.
And there is どろぼう (a burglar).
The burglar did the action.
どろぼうが入った
= A burglar entered.
入った is the past tense of 入る.
This is the active form.
It means the burglar did the action himself.
So, the correct answer is 1 入ったみたいだ.
✖ Other choices:
2 入られたようだ
→ ようだ also means a guess, but 入られた is the passive form.
In the passive, the burglar takes 「に」: どろぼう「に」入られた.
But the sentence has どろぼう「が」, so it doesn’t fit.
3 入ったかもしれなかった
→ かもしれなかった is the past form.
It means “there was a chance at that time.”
B is guessing now, so it doesn’t fit.
4 入らせたようだ
→ 入らせた is the causative form = “made someone go in.”
But the burglar went in himself. Nobody made him go in.
I hope this explanation helps! 😊