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あれ？お前ケガ治ってね？

It is at the end, and I don't really understand why. Why would a person choose to use te form? (btw the person saying this doesn't say anything after, so I don't think its some kind of connective)

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This is a very casual, slangy form of 「治ってない（か）？」 (not sentence-end ね). It's a little hard to say without context, but it sounds like the wounds healing was a surprise to the speaker, and the ～ている form is used in this case because the wounds have healed, rather than it being a future event.

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  • thanks for your answer, you have the correct context, but this is not ている form, is it? its just classic te form with ね after it, isnt it? i am missing something, can you explain more about it? i have always seen ていない、ている expressed differently, for example with 何やってるんだ- 何やってんだ, or 治ってんか- 治ってないか, できんか-できないか
    – bulgur69
    Commented Sep 29, 2022 at 15:37
  • @bulgur69 No, I explicitly said this is not sentence end ～ね. ～ない (and sometimes あい in general) can transform to ～ねえ (ええ) in rough slangy speech, and especially in young people's questions further shorten to ～ね. This is not particular to ～ている; somebody might suggest to go home like 「さ、もう帰らね？」
    – Angelos
    Commented Sep 29, 2022 at 16:10
  • okay! thanks! so it can be translated like "oh, arent your wounds already healing?" ?
    – bulgur69
    Commented Sep 29, 2022 at 17:58
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    @bulgur69 This ている is probably perfective rather than progressive, so it's "Haven't your wounds healed?"
    – naruto
    Commented Oct 29, 2022 at 2:16

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