
I wonder where そう 'looks like' goes.
https://tatoeba.org/fin/sentences/show/142007
雪になりそうですね。
It looks like snow, doesn't it?

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linked by shanghainese, June 12, 2012
Unlinked. This was not an exact match.

> I wonder where そう 'looks like' goes.
In the situation when someone looks up into the sky and says this English sentence, someone might very likely say 降りそう in Japanese.

@CK
I meant, why it's translated "It's going to rain" instead of "It looks like it's going to rain"?

I linked these 2 together.
雨が降りそうね。
[#519332] It looks like it's going to rain. (FeuDRenais) *audio*
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