~ようだ (seems/appears)
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The auxiliary ~ようだ (also copula-like ~ような attributive, adverbial ~ように), expressing 'seems / appears / looks like / is as if.' Based on evidence — what the speaker is seeing, hearing, or sensing. 雨が降っているようだ ('it looks like it's raining'), 夢のようだ ('it's like a dream'). Usually written in kana; the kanji variant 様だ appears rarely in older or stylized texts.