にしたら・
You put yourself in someone else's place and say how things look or feel from there. All three mean the same.
To a child, a week feels like a very long time.
Put yourself in the patient's place: waiting a whole week for the test results must be worrying.
How to form it
Person or group + にしたら／にすれば／にしてみれば
Straight onto the noun. にしたら is the most conversational, and にしてみたら is also said.
- Before it
- Someone whose place you can imagine: 親, 子ども, 彼, 店員, 会社側. After a thing or a time, にしたら is just にする with "if": 九時にしたら, "if we make it nine".
- After it
- How it looks or feels from there: 心配だ, つらい, 大変だ. Often with だろう or かもしれない, since you are guessing.
- Tone
- Understanding. You take their side for a moment, often against how it looks to everyone else.
- Where you'll meet it
- Conversation and writing alike.
In use
For an older person, a sudden change in how to apply must be hard to cope with.
For the staff, a crowd of customers turning up just before closing is a lot to handle.
Look at it from his side: he was blamed without even being asked why, so he probably couldn't accept it.
From the company's side, they may have thought they had explained enough.
Not for your own opinion
You can't step into your own shoes, so 私にしたら doesn't open an opinion of your own. That is 私としては.
Not said: 私に
(For my part, I'm in favor of this plan.)
私としては、この案に賛成です.
With 私 it asks others to see things from where you stood, and it is mostly 私にしてみれば.
It was probably meant as a casual joke, but from where I stood, it felt as if years of effort were being laughed at, and it hurt.
にしても after a person or a group
With も it is "for them too": often you have looked at one side, and now you turn to the other.
For the university too, it is hard to meet every request on a limited budget.
Whose view, or what evidence?
Three of these fit one sentence, each with its own point.
Put yourself in the parents' place: a child living alone is a worry.
としてはN2
After a person or an organization, often yourself (私としては): where they stand. After a category: "for a …" (新人としては).
As a parent, I worry about my child living alone.
After a person, yourself included: how things look from there (but not から言うと). After evidence: "judging from" (この結果からすると).
Seen from the parents' side, a child living alone is a worry.
からしてN2
After one telling sign: "judging from". After the first, most basic part of something: "even the …" (名前からして変だ).
Judging from the way he talks, he seems to know something.
ところを見るとN2
After a clause, not a noun: what you saw for yourself. Your guess follows.
The lights are off, so it looks as if nobody is home.
Close neighbours
にとってN3
What something is or means for someone: hard, important, a problem. You don't step into anyone's place, so it works for yourself too.
Applying online is hard for older people.
にしてもN2
Most often "even if": a point is granted, and the verdict stands anyway.
Even if it was a joke, that was put far too harshly.
Check yourself
1What is the person who says this doing?
彼女に
Choose an answer to see why.
2Which sentence sounds natural?
Choose an answer to see why.
More sentences
For a new employee, an atmosphere where it is hard to ask questions is a heavy burden.
For the parents, it isn't only the fees: they also worry about how safe the journey to school is.
For the patient's family, the wait for the results is the hardest part.
For someone coming for the first time, walking into the venue alone must be daunting.
The residents, for their part, understand that the work is needed, but six months of noise worries them.