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There’s a language joke in Uncle from Another World, where to pass himself off as an elf girl he adds a “-wa” to his sentences in a completely unconvincing way
by Isamu 4y ago
There’s a language joke in Uncle from Another World, where to pass himself off as an elf girl he adds a “-wa” to his sentences in a completely unconvincing way because that’s “how girls talk”.
So in this case is -wa a particle? What kind?
- ClimaxGravely 4y agoIn this case wa modifies a particle to make it sound more feminine. It's not a particle by itself. For example "yo" might become "wayo". I'm not sure I know about "wa" being used in that way by itself (maybe in some cases you can completely replace the particle with "wa" when it's obvious) but I'm not a native speaker (this is information I'm relaying from by partner/teacher)
- JMStewy 4y agoThat's a 終助詞 (shuujoshi) or "sentence-ending particle". Note that despite both being pronounced as "wa", the sentence-ending one is written as わ ("wa"), while the topic-marker particle is written as は ("ha"). In standard Japanese, わ is feminine and mildly emphatic (used for asserting an opinion or stating a fact).