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This sentence ending has started to creep up more and more in my current Japanese classes, and I'm still a bit unsure what all it can mean, how to use it, or even when I should think to use it. My ...

Specifically, in the expression 好きなんだ (I love you) why not just say 好きだ or 好きです ?

I've seen it used in many places, and sometimes it feels like a connection between words. For example in 「鳥の詩」 (tori no uta), it looks as if the の is connecting 鳥 (tori) and 詩 (uta), and I would like ...

I've been running into this trailing の particle quite often and can't seem to understand what exactly it means. Is it replacing か, or does it mean something else? For example: まだ生{い}きているの？

大学から歩いてニ十分ぐらいの所に適当なのを見つけた。 What does it mean when なの is used in a sentence like the one above? The を that comes after it is really throwing me off. I came across a similar question on here but all ...

In the recent thread titled Reason for 「のか」 and 「かもしれません」 in 「何を言っているのかわからないかもしれませんけど」, my impression is that saying "何を言っている のか 、分からない" sounds abrupt (and sort of impolite). While I have no idea if ...

What is the role of the な in bold in this sentence? Is it a nominalized だ? 考えれば考える程彼女がどういう女なのか分からなくなってきます。

受験生は夏休みが勝負なのよ? So since there is no verb here, how do the は and が function here?

I have translated most of the following sentence on my own, but I am having great difficulty in understanding then translating the ending of どうなの. 教え子の名前ぐらい、もう少し考えたらどうなの？ According to nevan king ...