Can someone explain how ような is used in this sentence?


Consider this sentence:

> でもだからこそ強くなれたし、短期留学じゃ経験できなかったような多くのリアルな留学が経験できた。

Someone I asked translated this as:

"But that is why I was able to become strong and had a lot of experience
through my realistic overseas study **that** would not be possible in a short-
term study program."

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I don't understand how ような is translated as "`that` would not be possible"

I've learnt that ような is used to express likeness or similarity. For example:

> 彼は私が想像していたような人ではなかった。He is not the person "like" I imagined

It wouldn't make sense if I use ような as "like" in the first sentence:

I read

> 短期留学じゃ経験できなかったような多くのリアルな留学が経験できた。

as:

"...and had a lot of realistic experiences studying abroad "like" I can't
experience when studying short-term abroad."

I know this sentence also wouldn't make sense for the same reasons:

> 実行できないような脅しはするな。Never make threats "that" you cannot carry out.

Is there another use for ような other than "like"? Can someone please explain
this grammatical rule to me?




It might help to think of it as "I had experiences that were not like ones I
would have had on a shorter exchange." In this case you can see that ような still
has the meaning of "like", and not of "that".

Even 実行できないような脅しはするな could be thought of as "never make threats like ones you
can't go through with".

I would avoid trying to make ような translate to "that" since it really is
expressing likeness in any case I can think of.

