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Like A; Seems A; Appears to be A
Used for information directly seen/heard/etc. by the speaker
今日きょうは 600 円えんで 入はいれ る み た い だ 。 
It seems like you can enter for 600 yen today.
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彼 女 は 歌 手 み た い に 歌 が 上手 い ん だ 。 
She's good at singing, like a (professional) singer.
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この お 茶 は コーヒー み た い な 色 だ ね 。 
This tea is a coffee-like color.

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Construction
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ANoun だった
 
AVerb
 
Aな-adjective だった
 
Aい-adjective
 
 
みたいだ/に/な
Basic Examples:
足跡だったみたい (looks like footprints)

跳ぶみたいだ (appears to be jumping)

新鮮みたい (looks fresh)

楽しいみたい (looks like fun)

Related Expressions
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Stupie
Level: 86
(8 months ago)

みたい　＝　よう

  1. N1 က N2 နဲ့တူတယ်လို့ပြောချင်ရင် みたい
    1. အဲ့ကောင်လေးက ဆံပင်ရှည်ရှည်နဲ့ ကောင်မလေးနဲ့တောင်တူတယ် / ဒီအိမ်ကြီးက ခမ်းနားလွန်းလို့ ဟိုတယ်နဲ့တူ၊ နွေဦးဆိုပေမဲ့ မိုးအုံ့နေလို့ မိုးရာသီနဲ့တူ
  2. လို့ထင်တယ်
    1. လူတွေတစ်အားပြုံနေတယ် accident ဖြစ်တယ်လို့ထင်တယ်
    2. အဖြစ်ပျက်တစ်ခုလုံးကိုခြုံငုံကြည့်ပီး စိတ်ထဲက ယူဆလိုက်တာ

らしい

  1. らしい　က ဒီN1 က ဒီN1 နဲ့တူတယ် (ပီသတဲ့ပုစံမျိုး)
    1. ခုမှပဲ မိုးရာသီက မိုးရာသီနဲ့တူတော့တယ် ၊ ကလေးက တစ်ကယ်ကလေးနဲ့တူ၊ မိန်းကလေးက မိန်းကလေးပီသတယ်
  2. လို့ကြားတယ်
    1. သူလက်ထပ်သွားပြီလို့ကြားတယ် ၊ နေမကောင်းဘူးလို့ကြားတယ်
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Lang_learner
Level: 1
(10 years ago)
For further clarification.

みたいに is used to say that the subject "does/did do something like something". For example:

君は女の子みたいに踊るよ。"You dance like a girl!" Or

あなたはパーティーで動物みたいに食べたよ！"You ate like an animal at the party!"

While みたいな is used to say "like".
For example:

モデルみたいな女性です。"A model like girl."/ "a girl that looks like a model."

男の人みたいな女の人ですね。"A woman that looks like a man."

Although みたいな is much like みたいだ, the difference between the two is that みたいな allows you to expound on a sentence.
For instance:

あなたみたいな人がすきです。"I like people like you."

トムみたいな人はとても楽しいですよ。"People like Tom are very fun."

I hope you found this helpful!
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Discussion about this grammar
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beckyr16
Level: 1
楽しそう　
楽しいみたいです

Are they essentially the same?
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13 years ago
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マイコー
Level: 260
そう is based on visual information by the speaker, whereas みたい does not have that restriction :)
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beckyr16
Level: 1
Ahh! Good to know. Thanks!
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13 years ago
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Tanooki
Level: 13
Can this be put into negative, like 'it doesn't look ___'?

'mitakunai' for instance?
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12 years ago
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マイコー
Level: 260
No - みたい is not an i-adjective, so it cannot be conjugated in that way.
Instead, it would be みたいじゃない
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Tanooki
Level: 13
Aah, okay. thank you for the clarification! That was my second thought on how to make it negative.
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Lang_learner
Level: 1
I notice that you do not have the grammar pionts みたいに and みたいな in the grammar library. Although they seem simular they are used in different ways. みたいに means "to do something like something". For example: 女の子みたいに踊るよ。"You dance like a girl." While みたいな means, "～like". For example: モデルみたいな女性です。A model like girl/ a girl that looks like a model. みたいな allows you to expound on a sentence, for instance, あなたみたいな人がすきです。"I like people like you". Thought I'd bring it up. :)
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10 years ago
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マイコー
Level: 260
Went ahead and expanded the usage parts, and will adjust the meaning to be a bit more inclusive.
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10 years ago
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elitrope
Level: 1
What's the difference in using　Noun + だった +みたい　or Noun + みたい? For example, let's say "刑務所だったみたいに学校" and "刑務所みたいに学校". Would one be "a school that looks like a prison" and the other "a school that looks like it was a prison"?
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10 years ago
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マイコー
Level: 260
First of, a small note: it should be な if it's preceding a noun (and に if preceding a verb), generally speaking. I would read the first as 'it's a school that looks like it was (once) a prison. I'm not sure what country you are from, but at least in the states, some restaurants have very distinct architecture, so that even if the restaurant goes out of business and some other company moves in, you can still look at the building and tell what it used to be. I would expect the だった form to be used in a case like that.
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10 years ago
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jamielin
Level: 17

I'm confused. If みたいじゃない is negative form, then what's the difference between these sentences:

犬じゃないみたい
犬みたいじゃない

I came across the sentence in Tae Kim's (the first one). Is the second sentence incorrect? Or have different meaning?
マイコー は 01月 15日, 10:11に
No - みたい is not an i-adjective, so it cannot be conjugated in that way.
Instead, it would be みたいじゃない
と言いました。
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5 years ago
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マイコー
Level: 260
Ok, so did a bit of research on this one, @jamielin .

The second one doesn't really occur, except for a very specific usage (which I'll get to at the bottom). 

If you were to try and translate them literally, the first it "it looks to not be a dog", while the second is "it doesn't look like a dog."

However, you are not negating the feeling/idea you have (represented by みたい), but you are saying that your observation suggests that the thing you are looking at is not a dog.

Now, there is a way to use it, but it doesn't really have anything to do with みたい. You might know that the negative conjugation can be used to elicit a response from the other party*

A: かっこういいじゃない？ (Cool, isn't it?)

In this sense, you could attach じゃない to the end of the phrase to say that you think it is  dog, and you're looking for confirmation from the other party.

Hope this helps!
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