〜そうだ (Advanced)

Appearance vs hearsay — two totally different そうだ

'It looks like it's going to rain' vs 'I heard Tanaka quit.' Both use そうだ but attach to different forms and mean different things.

What you'll learn

• Appearance-そうだ: attaches to ます-stem / adj stem (looks like it's about to...)
• Hearsay-そうだ: attaches to plain form (I heard that...)
• Tell them apart by what comes before そうだ

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