I'd like to know what ～じゃてえ exactly means when located at the end of verbs and/or adjectives. Do young people use it rhetorically?
The whole sentence is:
なのにのう ズイブンじゃてえ
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2Do you have a full sentence with it? Could it possibly be ～じゃねえ? There's also the possibility it's a dialectal variant of ～だって, or you're mishearing ～じゃで, which would be a dialectal variant of ～だよ. – Angelos Nov 8 '18 at 4:46
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thank you for answering！the whole sentence was なのにのう ズイブンじゃてえ. it was written so i didnt mishear it. im familiar with じゃねえ but じゃてえ is new to me. – user31870 Nov 8 '18 at 5:59
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It's not a recent slang word but a dialectal form of だって or だな. It's probably still in use in some parts of western Japan*, but it may be best to consider it as a stereotyped role word of old people and people in rural areas.
* Both のう and じゃ are actively used in reality in Setouchi region. Some source say じゃて(え) is Okayama dialect.
