JLPT N3EverydayTentative

ような気きがするI have a feeling that…

A hunch: something tells you it is so, and you couldn't say quite what. It is softer than と思おもう, and in conversation it is often just 気きがする.

どこかでこの曲きょくを聞きいたような気きがする。

I have a feeling I've heard this song somewhere before.

この計けい画かくは、今いまのままだとうまくいかないような気きがする。

I have a feeling this plan won't work as it stands.

How to form it

Plain form + ような気きがする

A noun takes の and a な-adjective な, as with ようだ: 休やすみのような気きがする.

In conversation

Plain form + 気きがする

Straight after a verb or an adjective: 勝かてる気きがする, 高たかい気きがする, 無む理りな気きがする. A noun keeps のような.

Before it: What you suspect: a half-memory, a guess about what is coming, a doubt. なんとなく or なんか ("somehow") often leads in.
Said about: Your own feeling. As a question, 気きがしない？ asks whether the other person feels it too.
Tone: Tentative, so it is a gentle way to raise a doubt.
Where you'll meet it: Conversation, messages, personal writing.

In use

ここは昔むかし、映えい画が館かんだったような気きがします。

I seem to remember that this used to be a movie theater.

彼かれの説せつ明めいは少すこし長ながいような気きがする。

I have a feeling his explanation is a little long.

なんか今日きょうは勝かてる気きがする。

Somehow I have a feeling we can win today.

A

山やま田ださん、今日きょうは来こないんじゃない？

Yamada's not coming today, is he?

B

うん、そんな気きがする。

Yeah, I get that feeling too.

そんな気きがする is the short way to agree with a hunch.

Two things to know

A hunch, not an opinion

この答こたえは違ちがうと思おもう。

I think this answer is wrong.

Your judgment. Asked why, you could say.

この答こたえは違ちがうような気きがする。

I have a feeling this answer is wrong.

Something seems off. Asked why, you couldn't say.

Not "I feel like pizza"

English "feel like" also means "want". That one is たい.

Not said: 今こん夜やはピザを食たべるような気きがする。

(I feel like pizza tonight.)

ピザが食たべたい. This one says you have a hunch that you will end up eating pizza.

Close neighbours

がするN4

The base: 音おとがする is "there is a sound", 気きがする "there is a feeling".

さっき廊ろう下かで変へんな音おとがした。

I heard a strange noise in the hallway a moment ago.

ようだN4

Your reading of signs you could point to. A hunch has none.

道みちがまだ濡ぬれている。昨さく夜や、雨あめが降ふったようだ。

The road is still wet. It seems that it rained last night.

Check yourself

1Which one is only a hunch?

Choose an answer to see why.

2"I feel like going home."

Choose an answer to see why.

3Which one fits?

明日あしたは休やすみ（　　）ような気きがする。

Choose an answer to see why.

More detail

する気きがしない

After the dictionary form of something you would do, 気きがしない is "don't feel like doing".

今日きょうは何なにもする気きがしない。

I don't feel like doing anything today.

More sentences

駅えき前まえの喫きっ茶さ店てんで、あの人ひとに前まえにも会あったような気きがする。

I have a feeling I've met that person before, at the coffee shop by the station.

今日きょうはいつもより人ひとが少すくないような気きがする。

I have a feeling there are fewer people than usual today.

この道みちを選えらべば、少すこし早はやく着つけるような気きがする。

I have a feeling we could get there a little sooner if we take this road.

あの二人ふたりは兄きょう弟だいではないような気きがする。

I have a feeling those two are not brothers.

最さい初しょは簡かん単たんなような気きがしたが、実じっ際さいに始はじめると難むずかしかった。

At first I had a feeling it would be easy, but once I started, it was difficult.

この部屋へや、ちょっと寒さむいような気きがしない？

Doesn't this room feel a bit cold to you?

彼かれの話はなしを聞きいていると、まるで自じ分ぶんもその場ばにいたような気きがした。

As I listened to him, I felt as if I had been there myself.

You weren't there, so it is "felt as if".