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I just started Season 3 Chapter 9, and I don’t understand some of the example sentences given in the chapter.
One of them is: みんな がくせい なのよ
Does the sentence not require the わ/が particle after the subject or the です at the end of the sentence? Can なのよ be substituted for です?
Does みんな がくせい なのよ mean the same thing as みんな わ がくせい です?
Thank you!
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It’s a casual sentence – when speaking casually, particles often get dropped. Yes, those two sentences mean the same thing, save that using the のよ sentence ending is very feminine. The casual form of です is だ, but in very casual use, it can be replaced with another sentence ender, or even dropped altogether.
P.S. The topic particle, though pronounced “wa”, is still written as は, and needs to be typed as “ha” when using an IME.
Thank you!
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