～からすると／からすれば — Judging From
Expresses the basis or perspective from which a judgment or inference is made — 'judging from X' or 'from X's point of view.' It commonly follows evidence you observe or a person whose viewpoint you take. The main clause usually contains a guess or evaluation.
Structure
[Noun] + からすると／からすれば
Examples
この様子からすると、彼は来ないだろう。
Kono yousu kara suru to, kare wa konai darou.
Judging from the look of things, he probably won't come.
様子 (situation) is the evidence leading to the inference だろう
親からすれば、子供の安全が一番大切だ。
Oya kara sureba, kodomo no anzen ga ichiban taisetsu da.
From a parent's point of view, a child's safety matters most.
親 (parent) is the perspective being taken
外国人からすると、日本語の敬語は難しい。
Gaikokujin kara suru to, nihongo no keigo wa muzukashii.
From a foreigner's perspective, Japanese honorifics are hard.
外国人 (foreigner) marks whose viewpoint frames the judgment
• Two uses: (1) 'judging from [evidence]', (2) 'from [someone's] standpoint'. • The main clause is typically a conjecture or evaluation. • Interchangeable with から見ると in most contexts.
Commonly confused with
The JLPT rarely asks whether you recognise a pattern — it asks which of several similar patterns fits. These are the ones ～からすると／からすれば is tested against.
vs ～からいうと
からすると takes a source/person as the vantage point to infer or evaluate, while からいうと judges strictly in terms of an abstract standard or criterion.
vs ～から見ると
Both mean 'judging from'; からすると leans slightly more toward reasoning/inference, while から見ると emphasizes the visual or observational vantage point. They are largely interchangeable.
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