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Formation: Plain form + というわけだ; N / な-adj + (だ) + というわけだ

The speaker presents a result as following naturally from the facts just given, or realises the reason for something (so that's why…). It often closes an explanation, and というわけで (so, and so) begins the next step. It is used in both speech and writing, and です-form is common in presentations. 〜ということだ simply restates what something means, while 〜というわけだ stresses cause and effect or reasoning. 〜次第です is a more formal way of explaining how something came about. Plain 〜わけだ is close in meaning, and という adds a summing-up feel.

Variants: というわけです、というわけで、わけだ

Examples

• 道路が凍結していた。それで事故が相次いだというわけだ。
  The roads had iced over. That's why there was one accident after another.
• 時差が八時間だから、向こうは今、朝の六時というわけだ。
  There's an eight-hour time difference, so it's six in the morning there now.
• こうした経緯で、計画は中止になったというわけです。
  So that is how the plan came to be cancelled.

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