What is the meaning of the slang ～じゃてえ?

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I'd like to know what ～じゃてえ exactly means when located at the end of verbs and/or adjectives. Do young people use it rhetorically?

The whole sentence is:

なのにのうズイブンじゃてえ

Do you have a full sentence with it? Could it possibly be ～じゃねえ? There's also the possibility it's a dialectal variant of ～だって, or you're mishearing ～じゃで, which would be a dialectal variant of ～だよ. — Angelos, Nov 08 '18 at 04:46
thank you for answering！the whole sentence was なのにのうズイブンじゃてえ. it was written so i didnt mishear it. im familiar with じゃねえ but じゃてえ is new to me. — user31870, Nov 08 '18 at 05:59

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 08 '18 at 11:32

It's not a recent slang word but a dialectal form of だって or だな. It's probably still in use in some parts of western Japan^*, but it may be best to consider it as a stereotyped role word of old people and people in rural areas.

_{* Both のう and じゃ are actively used in reality in Setouchi region. Some source say じゃて(え) is Okayama dialect.}

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