See そう in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "/sau/ → /sɔː/ → /soː/\nProbably either a shift from 様 (sama), or directly from 相 (sō). Appears from the Muromachi period.\nPossibly influenced by, or developed by analogy to, the adverbial and interjectional sō (然う).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "-sō",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "そうな",
"roman": "-sō na",
"tags": [
"adnominal"
]
},
{
"form": "そうに",
"roman": "-sō ni",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ja-na",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "そうだろ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō daro",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
]
},
{
"form": "そうで",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"continuative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō de",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"continuative"
]
},
{
"form": "そうだ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"stem",
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō da",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "そうな",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō na",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive"
]
},
{
"form": "そうなら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō nara",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical"
]
},
{
"form": "そうであれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō de are",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative"
]
},
{
"form": "そうではない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "そうじゃない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō de wa nai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō ja nai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "そうだった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō datta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "そうではなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "そうじゃなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō de wa nakatta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō ja nakatta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "そうです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "そうではありません",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "そうじゃありません",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō de wa arimasen",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō ja arimasen",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "そうでした",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō deshita",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "そうではありませんでした",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "そうじゃありませんでした",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō de wa arimasen deshita",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō ja arimasen deshita",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "そうで",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō de",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "そうなら（ば）",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō nara (ba)",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "そうだったら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō dattara",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "そうだろう",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō darō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "そうに",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "-sō ni",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "そうさ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
},
{
"form": "-sōsa",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "suffix",
"type": "na"
},
"expansion": "そう • (-sō) -na (adnominal そうな (-sō na), adverbial そうに (-sō ni))",
"name": "ja-pos"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"adverbial": ". に",
"attributive": ". な",
"conditional": ". なら（ば）",
"conjunctive": ". で",
"continuative": ". で",
"degree": "さ",
"formal": ". です",
"formal_negative": ". で は ありません",
"formal_negative2": ". じゃ ありません",
"formal_negative_past": ". で は ありません でした",
"formal_negative_past2": ". じゃ ありません でした",
"formal_past": ". でした",
"hypothetical": ". なら",
"imperative": ". で あれ",
"imperfective": ". だろ",
"informal_negative": ". で は ない",
"informal_negative2": ". じゃ ない",
"informal_negative_past": ". で は なかった",
"informal_negative_past2": ". じゃ なかった",
"informal_past": ". だった",
"kana": "-そう",
"lemma": "そう",
"provisional": ". だったら",
"terminal": ". だ",
"volitional": ". だろう"
},
"name": "ja-adj-infl"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"seem, seem like, appear"
],
"links": [
[
"seem",
"seem"
],
[
"appear",
"appear"
]
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"apparently, heard that (relating something heard from someone or somewhere else)"
],
"links": [
[
"apparently",
"apparently"
],
[
"heard",
"heard"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(after the plain form of a verb or adjective) apparently, heard that (relating something heard from someone or somewhere else)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"after the plain form of a verb or adjective"
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[so̞ː]"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Daijirin",
"Muromachi period"
],
"word": "そう"
}
{
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "soft-redirect",
"redirects": [
"双",
"壮",
"宗",
"奏",
"相",
"草",
"荘",
"庄",
"曹",
"喪",
"惣",
"葬",
"装",
"僧",
"想",
"層",
"争",
"箏",
"甑",
"騒",
"左右",
"疎雨",
"疏雨",
"艘",
"総",
"宋",
"走",
"添う",
"副う",
"沿う",
"候"
],
"senses": [
{
"tags": [
"no-gloss"
]
}
],
"word": "そう"
}
Download raw JSONL data for そう meaning in Japanese (11.0kB)
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