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What does せ mean at the end of a sentence? Here is the sentence where I saw it: 「今日は花金でっせ！！」 I think the sentence means “Thank God it’s Friday!” or “TGIF!” or something to that effect. However, I’m not sure what kind of tone せ conveys. Is it masculine, informal, forceful, positive? Thanks a lot!
My guess would be that でっせ is a colloquial or slang version of です, and certainly masculine.
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Jason.
Where did you see it?
Here’s an interesting page: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E%E3%81%AE%E6%96%B9%E8%A8%80%E3%81%AE%E6%AF%94%E8%BC%83%E8%A1%A8
Stumbled across that the other day for whatever reason; can get the gist of what’s going on at least. A quick search for でっせ doesn’t show anything, so my guess is that if it’s colloquial then it’s not very common. Could always be a typo :PI think it is Osaka-ben. “てっせ” is used in place of “ですよ”.
http://web.mit.edu/kansai/1.Characteristics/2.LinguisticAspects/f-Speechstyle.htmltypo, sorry, でっせ ( not てっせ)
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