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〜はずです supposed to / should be: Meaning & Examples
hazu desu · JLPT N4
〜はずです means “supposed to / should be”. It is a JLPT N4 pattern, shown below in the sentences where real Japanese writers use it, with furigana on every word.
〜はずです (supposed to / should be) in real sentences
Each one is quoted from a published Japanese text in this library and links to the story it came from. Some use older spellings, or break off where the sentence carried on. They are transcribed exactly as their authors wrote them.
Expresses expectation: 'it should be / it is expected that'. The doctor's wife cannot possibly know the art of immortality.
もとより仙人になる術なぞは、知っているはずがありません。
— from The Hermit (N2)
掏られたはずの財布がちゃんと、のっている。
— from The Empiricist (N2)
こりゃ怪しからん。僕の発見は長谷川君を大いに幸福にしているはずじゃないか？
— from Cold (N1)
それくらいのことは僕が言わないでも分かるはずだよ。
— from Red Diamond (N2)
Appears in 5 of 367 texts in our library.
蔵書The texts
5 texts in the library use 〜はずです
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解説Background
Where this 〜はずです explanation comes from
〜はずです sits at JLPT N4 in the 302-point taxonomy every text in this library is tagged against. Each text is read for the patterns it contains, which is what lets this page list every text that uses 〜はずです and pull its example sentences out of them.
The example sentences were not written to demonstrate the rule. They are quoted from published Japanese texts in this library (The Hermit and The Empiricist among them), and each one links back to the story it came from, so you can read the sentence where it actually happened.
質問Questions
〜はずです: questions & answers
What does 〜はずです mean?
〜はずです means “supposed to / should be”. It is a JLPT N4 pattern, and the example sentences on this page show it doing that job in published Japanese rather than in a constructed example.
What JLPT level is 〜はずです?
〜はずです is normally introduced around JLPT N4. The texts listed on this page span several levels, because a pattern taught at N4 keeps turning up in writing well above and below it.
How do I get 〜はずです to stick?
Read it rather than review it. Meeting 〜はずです in 5 different stories attaches it to 5 contexts you remember, where reviewing the rule 5 times attaches it to nothing. Every text listed here is free to read in full.
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