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JLPT N2Spoken and writtenA guess from signs

ところを見みるとjudging from what you see

You have seen something for yourself, and you say what you make of it. What you saw comes first; your guess ends the sentence.

How to form it

What you saw (plain form) + ところを見ると + your guess

Mostly a verb in ている or the た-form. Often written ところをみると.

Before it
Something you saw happen or found: 列れつができている, 返へん事じがすぐに来きた, 何なにも言いわない.
After it
Your guess, usually marked as one: らしい, ようだ, だろう, に違ちがいない.
Where you'll meet it
Conversation, commentary and stories.

In use

A clause before it, not a noun

Judging from the way he is acting, he seems to be angry still.

The sign as a noun: からすると or からして.

Whose view, or what evidence?

Three of these fit one sentence, each with its own point.

にしたら・にすれば・にしてみればN2

After a person: you imagine how things feel in their place. Not for your own opinion.

としてはN2

After a person or an organization, often yourself (私わたしとしては): where they stand. After a category: "for a …" (新しん人じんとしては).

から見ると・からすると・から言うとN2

After a person, yourself included: how things look from there (but not から言いうと). After evidence: "judging from" (この結けっ果かからすると).

からしてN2

After one telling sign: "judging from". After the first, most basic part of something: "even the …" (名な前まえからして変へんだ).

Close neighbours

ようだN4

One of the usual endings. On its own, the sign gets a sentence to itself.

ところを見られるN3

With no guess after it, ところを is plain seeing: someone is seen or caught in the act.

Check yourself

1Which one fits?

彼かの女じょが何なにも食たべない(  )、体たい調ちょうが悪わるいのだろう。

Choose an answer to see why.

2What does the person saying this know for certain?

駐ちゅう車しゃ場じょうに車くるまがないところを見みると、父ちちはもう出でかけたらしい。

Choose an answer to see why.

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