そうにない・そうもない: "Seems unlikely to X"
adept #109
~ 5 Minutes
Introduction
Wait, you can use そう for more than just observations and hearsay??? Whatttt?!
That's right, you're about to learn another usage of your favorite grammar point that you definitely didn't forget about: そう.
Let's get to it!
～そうにない・そうもない: Doesn't seem likely
構成
Verb stemそうにない
Verb stemそうもない
Example:
→ このカビゴン、動きそうにないけど、どうしよう。
"This Snorlax doesn't look like it's going to move, what should we do?”
Today's lesson will be all about observing things and making deductions so... make sure your observational powers are feeling up to snuff!
The そうにない・そうもない patterns combine the observational そう ("seems like") with the に or も particle, and ない ("isn't"). We can attach either pattern to any stem form
The "stem" of a verb, made by conjugating a verb to its ます-form and removing ます (e.g. 食べる → 食べます → 食べ).
verb to express "It doesn't seem like (verb) is going to happen", or that "X is showing no signs of doing Y".
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