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だったらさ！

だった is the completed tense of だ, ら is a rough indicator, and さ is an assertion. The completed existential verb with the rough indicator would seem to say something like "Things having been like so, indicates...", or "If that's the case, then..."

Would the assertion change it to something like "It is indicated that things are like so!" or "It is the case!"?

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  • さ is just a filler. It would be something like "In that case, well,. ..."
    – strawberry jam
    Dec 23, 2015 at 18:41
  • How do I reconcile the ending filler with the exclamation, then? "In that case, well!" (Or any other filler) seems odd to me.
    – johnnd
    Dec 23, 2015 at 18:51
  • Context...? Without context though, if it's used as an interjection, I'd say it's something like, "But that means...!" in English. Where the person just discovered something new and is making a sudden, shocking conclusion from it. Just what it sounds like to me.
    – Miss Lavelle
    Dec 23, 2015 at 19:52
  • It's fine, just like saying "Well then!" is fine. I can't really tell you what だったらさ means for every case because it depends on context. Anyway, it's still filler, although to be frank だったらさ！ sounds really odd.
    – strawberry jam
    Dec 23, 2015 at 19:57
  • "ら is a rough indicator". I think you might be misunderstanding this one. ら means "if" here.
    – dainichi
    Dec 24, 2015 at 22:55

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(だったら means "if it is, then".)

さ as in だったらさ is never a sentence ending particle. So it's always a filler.

さ as a sentence ender can appear (1) after a terminal form of verbs or adjectives, and (2) after a noun in the position of the predicate.

e.g. (1) なんとか なるさ。 (2) （私は）探偵さ。

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