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jmdict 2409200 Active (id: 2348318)
様です
ようです
1. [aux-v,cop] [uk,pol]
《at sentence end; after attrib. form of a verb or adjective, as の~ after nouns》
▶ it seems that ...
▶ it appears that ...
Cross references:
  ⇒ see: 2409190 【ようだ】 1. it seems that ...; it appears that ...
2. [aux-v,cop] [uk,pol]
《at sentence end; after attrib. form of a verb or adjective, as の~ after nouns》
▶ is like ...
▶ is similar to ...
Cross references:
  ⇒ see: 2409190 【ようだ】 2. is like ...; is similar to ...

Conjugations


History:
5. A 2025-09-23 05:14:18  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
4. A* 2025-09-22 09:38:33  Sombrero1
  Refs:
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーー─┬────────────┬───────╮
│ 様です  │  3,201,565 │  7.5% │
│ ようです │ 39,758,558 │ 92.5% │
╰─ーーーー─┴────────────┴───────╯
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーー─┬───────────┬───────╮
│ の様です  │   258,864 │  4.0% │
│ のようです │ 6,257,536 │ 96.0% │
╰─ーーーーー─┴───────────┴───────╯

BCCWJ (Corpus size: 104,911,460 words):
{の;よう;です}= 1780
{の;様[ヨウ];です}= 76 (4.27%)

{よう;です}= 13521
{様[ヨウ];です}= 318 (2.35%)



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  Comments:
Aligning with ようだ, changing xref targets due to now [rK] form.
Bordering on [rK], letting it be for now.

Also, there are 10 entries with notes where we use "attributive", versus the now three "attrib.". Perhaps subject to later alignment
  Diff:
@@ -11,2 +11,3 @@
-<pos>&aux;</pos>
-<xref type="see" seq="2409190">様だ・1</xref>
+<pos>&aux-v;</pos>
+<pos>&cop;</pos>
+<xref type="see" seq="2409190">ようだ・1</xref>
@@ -15,2 +16,3 @@
-<gloss>seeming to be</gloss>
-<gloss>appearing to be</gloss>
+<s_inf>at sentence end; after attrib. form of a verb or adjective, as の~ after nouns</s_inf>
+<gloss>it seems that ...</gloss>
+<gloss>it appears that ...</gloss>
@@ -19,4 +21,8 @@
-<pos>&aux;</pos>
-<xref type="see" seq="2409190">様だ・2</xref>
-<gloss>like</gloss>
-<gloss>similar to</gloss>
+<pos>&aux-v;</pos>
+<pos>&cop;</pos>
+<xref type="see" seq="2409190">ようだ・2</xref>
+<misc>&uk;</misc>
+<misc>&pol;</misc>
+<s_inf>at sentence end; after attrib. form of a verb or adjective, as の~ after nouns</s_inf>
+<gloss>is like ...</gloss>
+<gloss>is similar to ...</gloss>
3. A 2012-05-16 23:29:46  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
2. A* 2012-05-16 05:13:57  Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
  Diff:
@@ -12,1 +12,1 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="2409190">様だ</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2409190">様だ・1</xref>
@@ -20,0 +20,1 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="2409190">様だ・2</xref>
1. A 2008-09-23 00:00:00 
  Comments:
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