～でしょう ～deshou
How to make”～でしょう..” in Japanese.
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- ・ Meaning: making a guess or prediction.
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- ・ JLPT Level: N5 日本語能力試験N5級レベル
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- ・ Category: grammar
文法
You can use～でしょう when you want to say “making a guess.”
The patterns is below:
verb short form + desho – probably
It means something like to express a level of some certainty and is close in meaning to 「多分」. Just like 「～です／～ます」, it must come at the end of a complete sentence. It does not have any other conjugations. You can also replace 「～ですか」 with 「～でしょうか」 to make the question sound slightly more polite and less assuming by adding a slight level of uncertainty. or prediction.
例文：Examples of sentence (with audio)
明日は晴れるでしょう。Ashita wa hareru desho.
Tomorrow should be sunny.
北海道は寒いでしょう。Hokkaido wa samui desho.
It is probably cold in Hokkaido
あなたは学生さんでしょうか。Anata wa gakusei-san deshou ka?
Are you a student?
Keep up with your studies!