様
よう
way, manner, kind
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Examples
この様な事は二度と起きないだろう。
このようなことはにどとおきないだろう。
Something like this probably won't happen again.
皆に分かる様に、ゆっくり話してください。
みんなにわかるように、ゆっくりはなしてください。
Please speak slowly so that everyone understands.
お客様がお待ちです。
おきゃくさまがおまちです。
A customer is waiting for you.
Common patterns
- ～の様な
- like ..., such as ...
- ～様に
- so that ..., in the way that ...
- お客様
- customer (honorific)
Memory tip
Two lives in one kanji: read よう it means "way/appearance" and drives ような and ように (usually written in kana today); read さま it is the honorific above さん. The seed example used ご親切さま, which is not this word.
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