sensushi
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ようになる details

write + come to do

kaku you ni naru

come to do; reach the point where

meaning: reach the point of writing

うちの野菜やさい食べるたべるようになるよ。

uchi no ko, yasai o taberu you ni naru yo.

Our kid reaches the point of eating vegetables. casual

毎日まいにち練習れんしゅうして、すこしずつおよげるようになりました。

mainichi renshuu shite, sukoshi zutsu oyogeru you ni narimashita.

Practicing every day, I gradually became able to swim. neutral

  • change arrived
  • polite past

Examples

come to do; become able to — a gradual change in habit or ability, very often on a potential verb

うちの野菜やさいべるようになったよ。

uchi no ko, yasai o taberuyouninatta yo.

Our kid reached the point of eating vegetables. casual

毎日まいにち練習れんしゅうして、すこしずつおよげるようになりました。

mainichi renshuu shite, sukoshi zutsu oyogeru you ni narimashita.

Practicing every day, I gradually became able to swim. neutral

ほんサービスにより、海外かいがいからも手続てつづきができるようになります。

honsaabisu ni yori, kaigai kara mo tetsuzuki ga dekiru you ni narimasu.

This service will make it possible to complete the procedures from overseas as well. formal

Formation

Notes

The negative change is normally なくなる, not ×ないようになる: 最近[さいきん]、彼[かれ]は来[こ]なくなった "he stopped coming".

Related patterns

Similar

  • Same なる, different scope — になる flips a state (春になる), ようになる shifts what someone habitually does or can do, and only gradually; 話せるようになった marks an arrival after a stretch of change, not a switch.

Lookalikes

  • One verb apart with agency reversed — 早起きするようになった says the change arrived on its own, 早起きするようにしている says the subject keeps making it happen; swapping them accidentally claims or disclaims the effort.

Same meaning

to become; come to

PatternAttaches to
くなる
になる