N4 grammar

〜として

toshite

In the capacity of

Formation

として gives the role or the standing something has: as a student, as a rule, as a doctor. It says which hat is being worn. It is common in writing and in anything official.

Examples

〜として is marked in each sentence. Tap any word for its dictionary entry.

  1. Whether it's good or not, let's do it anyway.

  2. She is famed as a soprano.

  3. I can't help it.

  4. French developed from Latin.

  5. He appeared as a pinch hitter in the game.

The explanation is ours, written for this site. Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), each machine-checked to actually contain the pattern. Furigana is generated automatically, so a rare reading may be imperfect.