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JLPT N3Hearsay & Conjecture

～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.

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Structure · 形

[Noun] + からすると／からすれば

Examples · 例文

  • 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

Usage notes · 注意

  • 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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