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JLPT N1Spoken and writtenA few set verbs

ようによってはdepending on how you (see it)

Depending on how you look at it, use it or go about it, a thing comes out differently: a failure is good experience, an old cloth an ornament. よう is "way", and a handful of verbs do nearly all the work.

How to form it

Verb ます-stem + ようによっては

Nearly always one of these: 考かんがえよう, 見みよう, 使つかいよう, やりよう, 言いいよう, 聞ききよう, 取とりよう. 考かんがえよう and 見みよう are spelled like "let's think" and "let's look", but this よう is a noun, "way". 使つかいよう shows it: "let's use" is 使つかおう.

After it
How the thing then comes out, for better or for worse: 〜になる, 〜とも言いえる, 〜に聞きこえる, 〜できる.
Where you'll meet it
Conversation, advice, essays, reviews. Neither stiff nor casual.
With any verb
方かた says the same, so it is the safe one to say yourself: 考かんがえ方かたによっては, 使つかい方かたによっては.

In use

Sayings with the same よう

People say these whole: ものは考かんがえよう, "it all depends how you look at it"; ものは言いいよう, "it's all in how you put it"; 気きの持もちよう, "a matter of attitude".

Close neighbours

によってはN3

After an ordinary noun it sorts cases: in some of them, this is so. With よう there is one thing, seen or done in different ways.

方N5

The everyday "way of doing", for any verb.

ようがないN2

The same よう with がない: there is no way to do it.

Check yourself

1Which one is right?

同おなじ言こと葉ばでも、(  )によっては失しつ礼れいに聞きこえる。

Choose an answer to see why.

2What does this mean?

考かんがえようによっては、今こん回かいの失しっ敗ぱいもいい勉べん強きょうになった。

Choose an answer to see why.

More detail

On the same verb stems, ようでは is the same thing, shorter.

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