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Presents information A; A is heard (and repeated in this sentence)
Can be used when A is confirming something that was said more clearly.
  1. Presents information A; A is heard (and repeated in this sentence)
    Can be used when A is confirming something that was said more clearly.
  2. Changes sentence/phrase A into a noun
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ボブ  ルーシー         いう こと   
I hear that Bob and Lucy have broken up.
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その    によると       いう こと   
The report states that there will be a depression.
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この こと            という こと になる  
From this, it follows that he is innocent.
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        によると       ある            いう こと   
According to the news on TV, a popular singer died today.
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  によると         もらう  とても         なる  いう こと です  
According to my friend, dogs feel wonderful when you rub their bellies.
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 によれば    クラブ              いう こと です  
According to the rumors, it looks like that there are a lot of first year students joining clubs this year.

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いうこと
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Stupie
Level: 86
(8 months ago)

うことだ\とのことだ ~ လို့ကြားတယ်

  • ကိုယ်တစ်နေရာရာက လက်ခံရရှိထားတဲ့ သတင်းအချက်အလက်ကိုပြန်ပြော
  • によると/ によれば/ のはなしでは နဲ့ဝါကျ စတတ်
    • သတင်းအရဆိုရင်တော့ သူတို့ ကွာရှင်းလိုက်တယ်လို့ ကြားတယ် / ဆရာမစကားအရဆိုရင်တော့ မနက်ဖန် ပိတ်ရက်လို့ ကြားတယ် / မိုးလေဝသသတင်းအရဆိုရင်
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Changes sentence/phrase A into a noun
  1. Presents information A; A is heard (and repeated in this sentence)
    Can be used when A is confirming something that was said more clearly.
  2. Changes sentence/phrase A into a noun
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    によると                 いう こと      
According to the entertainment magazines, it seems that a famous celebrity was arrested for sexual harrassment.
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       こと      
He's good at driving, isn't he?
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        いる   こと          
That Mr. Oda is at the school gates... it's a personal belongings inspection!
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         して      いう こと でした  
Master Ooyama returned greatly satisfied.
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         なる       
It is said that it will get hot starting from around next month.

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mireille
Level: 1
This is level 3 grammar.
A similiar meaning to とうことです is とのことです. (There's no entry for that grammar on this site.)

さんはむとのことです。 (Unicom)
I heard from Honda-san that he’s taking of from work today.

からよろしくとのことです。(Tangorin website)
She sent you her best wishes.
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マイコー
Level: 256
Thanks - I've added a new page for とのことだ. You should add a few sentences in there for practice :). ( http://www.renshuu.org/index.php?page=grammar/individual&id=344 )

I checked my JLPT specification book, though, and only found ということ in the level 2 list. Do you have another source that says level 3?
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mireille
Level: 1
うことです is mentioned in Unicom grammar book for level 3 where the meaning and sentence construction is the same as the one posted here. I don't have any other sources other than that.

I think I got confused with this entry at one point: http://www.renshuu.org/index.php?page=grammar/individual&id=131
At first glance, it’s very similar except one uses copula instead of a particle (aside from the different meanings).

Another grammar point that is missing on this site is "っぱなし". Similar meaning as "‾まま"
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マイコー
Level: 256
Ah, that's the level 3 entry; there's *also* a level 2 entry. I'll combine them so they are on one page - no point in keeping them separate.

っぱなし isn't a JLPT entry, is it? I'll add it (the site is in no means restricted to JLPT). Thanks!
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mireille
Level: 1
Actually っぱなし is a level 3 grammar point too. It used to be a level 1 grammar point, or so I heard.
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fareastfurfaro
Level: 1
っぱなし is level 3? I've never heard of it until now, haha. That's not a good sign...
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マイコー
Level: 256
I've not heard of it either, and it definitely wasn't in my textbook when I studied a few years ago. I'm thinking it might have been added in the textbook that mireille is using as an unofficial grammar point that's been seen in the test before (what is it, like 10% of the grammar/vocab each year is outside of the official lists).
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mireille
Level: 1
Update on the construction:

Plain form verb + ということだ
Noun + (だ+) ということだ
Na-adjective + (だ+) ということだ
I-adjective + ということだ

And ということだ has two meanings.
1) something heard
2) Present info

After reading my previous post, it's a bit more clear.
The first meaning was added in the lv3 grammar book, but only in the lv2 grammar book more details about the construction with examples were given. So it's something lv3 students needs to be familiar with but not something that really needs to be mastered completely.
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マイコー
Level: 256
Got it!
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fareastfurfaro
Level: 1
What about the usage where it confirms something that was said more clearly. My example is, 「ふーん、はちょっと・・・」「あー、わないということだね。」Where would that fit?
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マイコー
Level: 256
Good point; I can expand the definition a bit.
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alekth
Level: 20
I'm not sure whether this or the standalone という is the best place to add a usage/meaning, but since the standalone one specifies a noun before という, I'm going to suggest it here.
Instead of こと one can use some more specific words, that render the preceding clause into "such/such that", e.g.
をいつもせるという (the mentality of always leaving problematic work to others)
さないというえ (the thought of never speaking to him again)

Again, not sure that fits here, but it seemed to be the closest one.
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マイコー
Level: 256
I think it might be a better fit on this page: http://www.renshuu.org/index.php?page=grammar/individual&id=126
What do you think?
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alekth
Level: 20
Yeah, the standalone one was my first choice, it would definitely require a new meaning there (edit: though IMO the A is called B meaning is the same, just one specific aspect - but still probably useful to keep separate for JLPT purposes). Unfortunately I can't think of a not overall general description for it... well, it mostly is a pretty general structure of one clause clarifying another.
Maybe sort of "that is/that says"; says, since apart from abstract things like thoughts/feelings etc, it can also be used for general information-passing ones, e.g. という、という、という etc.
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Khana
Level: 1

Hi,


In the second meaning, the construction for verbs specify dictionary form. However, I saw example from here, where verbs are "conjugated" but keep casual form. Such as :「ボブルーシーこうさいやめたいうこと」「あー、わないということだね。」


Is it right ? Does this entry need an update ?

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マイコー
Level: 256

The entry is a bit rigid. It can contain any plain verb form. Thanks for pointing it out.

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