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What exactly is "なの" (nano)?
I stumbled across this question looking for something else, and I realize it's pretty old by the time I'm writing this, but while some of the answers did adequately cover the meaning/interpretation, ...
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What is an emphatic particle?
I think your confusion comes from the fact that there is more than one way to use particles for an emphatic effect.
Sentence final particles
Sentence final particles よ, ぞ, ぜ, わ and others are ...
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What does it mean to end a sentence with ひとつだけ?
Consider these simpler examples:
リンゴは2個です。
The number of apples is two.
参加者は3人です。
The number of participants is three.
「箱の中には何がありますか？」「バナナが2本です。」
"What is in the box?" "Two bananas."
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Sentence ending でな
This でな is indeed the te-form of だ, followed by な, a masculine sentence-final particle.
A sentence-end で can have several different roles. Here, it may be a reason marker (i.e., explaining to someone ...
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sentences ending in "を"
(a) Who is the subject?
It must be decided from the context. It's perhaps "you", but it can be "he", "they", or whatever, depending on the context.
(b) What is the object?
The object is 後任, of ...
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What are some other common dialect suffixes in Japan?
I think your Japanese friend oversimplified the explanation. It is true that some sentence-final particles are strongly associated with certain regions in Japan (or sometimes even certain foreign ...
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Differences between 一緒に行ってくれればいい, 一緒に行ってくれればいいから, 一緒に行ってくれればその方がいいから
They wouldn't be interchangeable.
一緒に行ってくれればその方がいいから
if you (thankfully for me) go with me, it's better
一緒に行ってくれればいい
一緒に行ってくれればいいから
it'll be enough/nice if you (thankfully for me) go ...
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〜ほうを as in 準備のほうを
This type of ほう is used to make the sentence sound euphemistic and/or courteous. According to 明鏡国語辞典第2版:
方
④ 物事をぼかしていったり遠回しにいったりする。多く、ぼかすことで慎み深い気持ちを表す。
「金融の方に勤めています」「お仕事の方は順調ですか」
So 準備のほうを is a ...
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Role of な in といってな
Final particles (ね, よ, な, さ) can be thrown in the middle of a sentence in conversation as if fillers.
There are technically two types:
follows the first word/chunk of the sentence
それがね、本物のマツタケなんです ...
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Nuance of ざんす / ざんしょ as a sentence ender
It's from old 山の手言葉. ざます/ざぁます/ざんす used to be actively used in the past among classy madams in Yamanote regions, but today it's used mainly in fiction as role language of snobbish people and nouveau ...
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Is desu needed at the end of every single sentence? Also, can you add end particles at the end of every word/sentence?
です is certainly not needed at the end of every single sentence. But if writing or speaking in polite style ですます体 desu masu tai or 丁寧語 teineigo, sentences usually end in some form of です or ～ます.
Don't ...
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Is using the particle の at the end of a sentence considered feminine?
It depends.
の in a question to make sure is used by both male and female people. So the following lines can be naturally said by a male or female speaker.
「行くの？ 行かないの？」
「ディズニーランドに行きたいの？」
「高校で水泳部だったの？」...
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Sentence ending じょ
そんで、いたの？ (= それで、いたの？) means "And, was (it) there?" "And, did you see/find (it) there?" そんで is a colloquial, collapsed way of pronouncing それで. The subject for the verb いた(居た) is left out.
いたじょいたじょ (= ...
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The meaning of んや
I am fairly certain that what you encountered is actually part of 関西弁｛かんさいべん｝, or the regional dialect in Kansai. Sometimes Kansai dialect is used to add a different feeling to a character. ...
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How is な used here?
I think the な is the negative imperative meaning don't do. So, the speaker is telling 鈴木 to not ask his son. The second sentence shows the speaker's reasoning with the explanatory のだ: because there's ...
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Question about ね particle
Given the limited context, there's only so much room for interpretation, but assuming that this is only a fragment of the conversation, this can be an acceptable answer.
そうですね is a way to say, that ...
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Particles じぇ and じょ
じょ used to be a very common sentence-ender in Awa (Tokushima) dialect, although it's becoming obsolete, like other dialects. Looks like じぇ is a sentence-ender in Iwate dialect.
That being said, this ...
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Meaning of ～ばいいかな
I can't give you the grammar behind it, but I can give you the translation and explanation. Hopefully there's someone who can answer the grammar part in more detail.
I guess I'd be fine with geting ...
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Function of the sentence final particle こと in this sentence
Yes, it's true and it is placed at the end of a sentence. However we don't use this usage of こと except very elegant and rich ladies.
I have never heard this こと in real life. I wonder if there are ...
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What is the implied-verb represented by the sentence-ending を in the following context？
何で、あんなことを?
Why did you ... such a ...?
If you understand the story correctly, the implied verb should be self-evident. What happened to him a moment before (さっき)? What is her response to this ...
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The real meaning of の when asking a question
This の is still explanatory-no used to seek clarification.
A「いってきます。夜には戻るね。」
B「どこに行くの？」
In this case, の is almost mandatory because B is seeking the reason why A is leaving. You definitely have ...
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How to omit and change female end particles?
As far as lyrics are concerned, in the Japanese culture, the original lyrics are never modified even when they are sung by someone of the opposite sex. If the original lyrics say わよ, a male singer ...
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Role of な in といってな
This な is a masculine filler particle meaning nothing. If you know ね, さ or よ used like this, this な works the same way.
Examples of filler-な:
What is the にはな used for in the following sentence?
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"Strategies" to speak in 1st, 2nd or 3rd person without pronouns
It does take many hours to get used to, and it is impossible to answer it in one answer. You are trying to simplify the problem too much. If you are presented with a single sentence without absolutely ...
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Usage of ”なのか” inside a sentence
Let's just consider the inner fragment
それがいくらか
How would you parse this? Is it a sentence? If it is a sentence, where is the verb?
The grammar with わかる is generally it takes a sentence followed by ...
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