～わ・～ぜ: Sentence-enders 4 (Advanced Edition)

Introduction

わlcome. LOL.

In this lesson, we'll cover one of the more difficult sentence-enders, 「～わ」, and then we'll chill out with the super-declarative 「～ぜ」, which is mainly used in anime/manga.

Let's go, ya!

～わ: The other emphatic "wa"

構成こうせい

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  Casual form verb/い-adjectiveわ

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  な-adjective/noun(だ)わ
  Example:
  → これ、好すきだわ。
  "Oh man, I like this.”

わ can be a complicated sentence-ender. This is mainly because わ molds itself to the sentence it ends, rather than having one particular meaning. It's sort of a sentence-ending chameleon. Then, tack on the fact that there's a "feminine" and a "genderless" わ, as well as regional differences... and well, I think it's clear why there isn't a lot of succinct info out there about this little piece of grammar.