At risk of making a fool of myself, ikaremasu means what?

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女の人は男の人に先に食事に行かれます。
It’s not passive, causative or potential.
Google translate says it’s “The woman goes to the meal before the man.” But that would be ikimasu so I’m wondering what I’m missing here?

This is from nihongo so matome n3 listening comprehension page 22.

Thanks in advance.

#2

According to this conjugation chart, that would be “passive / honorific”.

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#3

I was thinking the same thing. Sometimes passive form is used just to be extra polite, with no change in meaning.

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#4

Thank you gentlemen. Looks like I need to drill conjugations.

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