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.
The same failure can be a valuable experience, depending on how you think about it.
Even old cloth can make a fine decoration, depending on how you use it.
How to form it
Verb ます-stem + ようによっては
Nearly always one of these: 考えよう, 見よう, 使いよう, やりよう, 言いよう, 聞きよう, 取りよう. 考えよう and 見よう are spelled like "let's think" and "let's look", but this よう is a noun, "way". 使いよう shows it: "let's use" is 使おう.
- After it
- How the thing then comes out, for better or for worse: 〜になる, 〜とも言える, 〜に聞こえる, 〜できる.
- Where you'll meet it
- Conversation, advice, essays, reviews. Neither stiff nor casual.
- With any verb
- 方 says the same, so it is the safe one to say yourself: 考え方によっては, 使い方によっては.
In use
Looked at a certain way, this result could even be called a sign of improvement.
The same message can hurt someone, depending on how you put it.
Even on a limited budget, you can get good results if you go about it the right way.
Sayings with the same よう
People say these whole: ものは考えよう, "it all depends how you look at it"; ものは言いよう, "it's all in how you put it"; 気の持ちよう, "a matter of attitude".
It all depends how you look at it. If it rains, you can stay in and read.
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.
In some countries, hardly any stores are open on Sundays.
方N5
The everyday "way of doing", for any verb.
Depending on how it is used, this medicine can also be a poison.
ようがないN2
The same よう with がない: there is no way to do it.
I don't know their address or their phone number, so I have no way of getting in touch.
Check yourself
1Which one is right?
同じ
Choose an answer to see why.
2What does this mean?
考えように
Choose an answer to see why.
More detail
On the same verb stems, ようでは is the same thing, shorter.
Looked at the right way, this is good experience too.
More sentences
Depending on how we go about it, this repair can be finished today.
Depending on how you use the tool, you can halve the working time.
Looked at a certain way, this proposal too is well worth having.
Even a harsh opinion can become helpful advice, depending on how you put it.