N4 grammar

〜ような

youna

Like that kind of thing

Formation

ような is ようだ turned round to describe the noun that follows, giving you a phrase like a dream or that sort of person. Its adverbial partner ように modifies verbs instead. Both are everywhere once you start noticing them.

Examples

〜ような is marked in each sentence. Tap any word for its dictionary entry.

  1. That man's monstrously strong.

  2. The fish tasted like salmon.

  3. Other restaurants serve chicken without anything that makes it stand out.

  4. There are few books without misprints.

  5. You are an angel of a child.

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.