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様だ [rK]
ようだ
1. [aux-v,cop] [uk]
《at sentence end; after attrib. form of a verb or adjective, as の~ after nouns》
▶ it seems that ...
▶ it appears that ...
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 1605840 様【よう】 1. appearing ...; looking ...
  ⇐ see: 2409200 様です【ようです】 1. it seems that ...; it appears that ...
2. [aux-v,cop] [uk]
《at sentence end; after attrib. form of a verb or adjective, as の~ after nouns》
▶ is like ...
▶ is similar to ...
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 1605840 様【よう】 4. like; similar to
  ⇐ see: 2409180 様な【ような】 1. like; similar to
  ⇐ see: 2409200 様です【ようです】 2. is like ...; is similar to ...

Conjugations


History:
8. A 2025-09-21 19:21:02  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Trimming
  Diff:
@@ -15 +15 @@
-<s_inf>at sentence end; after the attributive form of a verb or adjective, and as の~ after nouns</s_inf>
+<s_inf>at sentence end; after attrib. form of a verb or adjective, as の~ after nouns</s_inf>
@@ -23 +23 @@
-<s_inf>at sentence end; after the attributive form of a verb or adjective, and as の~ after nouns</s_inf>
+<s_inf>at sentence end; after attrib. form of a verb or adjective, as の~ after nouns</s_inf>
7. A* 2025-09-20 15:36:12  Sombrero1
  Comments:
There have been a select few instances where it's been considered recently IIRC, but I don't really think it changes much here.
I'm not one to be stingy with notes anyway.
It's probably more reasonable in entries like the revised て one.
  Diff:
@@ -15 +15 @@
-<s_inf>all senses: at sentence end; after the attributive form of a verb or adjective, and as の~ after nouns</s_inf>
+<s_inf>at sentence end; after the attributive form of a verb or adjective, and as の~ after nouns</s_inf>
@@ -22,0 +23 @@
+<s_inf>at sentence end; after the attributive form of a verb or adjective, and as の~ after nouns</s_inf>
6. A* 2025-09-19 21:15:23  Marcus
  Comments:
"all senses:" in a note is very non-standard, I'm definitely not a fan.
5. A* 2025-09-18 16:19:49  Sombrero1
  Refs:
In the BCCWJ,{の;よう;だ}gets 1643 hits compared to a measly 22 for{の;様[ヨウ];だ}, which is a ratio of 99.9867% to 0.0133%
It's the same situation with the other, smaller, corpora.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーー─┬────────────┬───────╮
│ 様だ  │    484,793 │  4.1% │
│ ようだ │ 11,388,617 │ 95.9% │
╰─ーーー─┴────────────┴───────╯
╭─ーーーー─┬───────────┬───────╮
│ の様だ  │    69,099 │  3.4% │
│ のようだ │ 1,938,625 │ 96.6% │
╰─ーーーー─┴───────────┴───────╯

Meikyo, etc. : 活用語の連体形に付く。また、体言+「の」、または連体詞「この」 「その」 「あの」 「どの」などに付く。

Meikyo and Shinsen don't even record the kanji form in their headwords
  Comments:
I think [rK] is appropriate here. 
A user on the jisho forum pointed out that it'd be helpful to note the "の~ after nouns" for this usage, I think it's good to have.
I will align relevant entries later, given this edit being approved.
  Diff:
@@ -5,0 +6 @@
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
@@ -11,0 +13 @@
+<pos>&cop;</pos>
@@ -13 +15 @@
-<s_inf>at sentence end</s_inf>
+<s_inf>all senses: at sentence end; after the attributive form of a verb or adjective, and as の~ after nouns</s_inf>
@@ -18,0 +21 @@
+<pos>&cop;</pos>
@@ -20 +22,0 @@
-<s_inf>at sentence end</s_inf>
4. A 2024-06-30 16:24:21  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
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