24 January 2015

Questions

To change a adjective type sentence to a question, just add (ka) at the end.

It’s new. あたらしい です (Atarashii desu).

Is it new? あたらしい です か? (Atarashii desu ka?)

For casual language, (da) replaces です (desu):

あたらしい Atarashii da.

But to change it to a question, you don’t change it to da ka.  Instead, ka replaces da.

あたらしい か? (Atarashii ka?)

Women more often drop the ka:

あたらしい? (Atarashii?)

since apparently the ka sounds abrupt when speaking casually.

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