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What is the meaning of ～んです/～のだ/etc?

This sentence ending has started to creep up more and more in my current Japanese classes, and I'm still a bit unsure what all it can mean, how to use it, or even when I should think to use it. My Japanese teacher in a previous class mentioned that…
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What connotation does なんだ add?

Specifically, in the expression 好きなんだ (I love you) why not just say 好きだ or 好きです ?
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「だね」「だよね」と「のだね」「のだよね」の違い

以前、この四つの文の違いをネーティブに尋ねてみました。 「あまり好きじゃないね」 「あまり好きじゃないよね」 「あまり好きじゃないんだね」 「あまり好きじゃないんだよね」 その人によると、「ね」と「んだよね」の文は自分の好みを他人に話している感じで、「んだね」の文は話し相手から聞いた情報を自分で言い返している感じで、「よね」の文は他人の好みについて自分の推測か、相手の言ったことの解釈を話している感じだということです。さらには、「ね」と「んだよね」の違いを尋ねてみたら、「ね」の方が断定が強く、…
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what is the meaning of なの here

It seems I can remove it and keep the same meaning... 暗黒物質は自然界の新しい種類の力を介して相互作用する雑多な粒子の集まりからなり，それ自体が私たちの宇宙にひっそりと絡み合う1 つの宇宙 なのかもしれない。
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Could there be an 'invisible' "should" in this sentence? 携帯番号交換しとくんだったな

携帯番号交換しとくんだったな。。。 The sentence means "We have interchanged phone numbers in advance." This makes no sense with the story unless I add "should" before the "have". So could ~teoku's meaning also include "should" ("should prepare in advance") in…
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Is ので the same as のだ?

I find it suspicious they look similar and both function to give explanations. Is it just coincidence or is ので kind of like the て form/mid-sentence form of のだ?
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Use of の with かもしれない

北海道の海岸に向かう途中で、川に入ってしまったのかもしれません。 They might have ended up entering the river en route to the Hokkaido coast. What is の (in bold) doing in this sentence? It was my understanding that かもしれない came straight after the predicate. My guess is that this…
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Using verb + "n desu", "n da" in questions and in statements and with no confirmation

Are the following phrases exactly the same in terms of meaning? And are they all correct in terms of grammar? Can I use them interchangably? tokyo e iku tokyo e iku n tokyo e iku no da tokyo e iku no desu tokyo e iku nda tokyo e iku ndesu I know…
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どうしたの, どうした, どうしたんですか, どうしましたか？

どうしたの どうした どうしたんですか どうしましたか They all mean what happened. But what's the difference in between? Feel free to add examples. Thanks!
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Is なの the casual form of んです or is んだ?

For example: なぜなの？ なぜなんですか なぜなんだ？ Do those sentences have the same meaning? I also learnt that there is an even more formal way to express the んです and is with のです and のだ. And I also hear that なの is a female expression, is that true? Does a male…
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Negative questions + の

First I'm kinda confused. I'm concerned if these 2 questions bring the same nuance or not... "Isn't he young?" and "He is not young? / He isn't young?". Both sounds quite different on how they imply the speaker's perspective. I believe that these 2…
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Difference between の and から for denoting a reason/explanation

So I remember that back in the day I learnt that things in Japanese were explained by using から or an explanatory particle の and then the more formal version of から is ので. Ever since then I've just ran with the fact that から says that you're going to…
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Trying to break down 2 sentences (Genki lesson 15 dialogue 1)

Going through Genki and Lesson 15 has brought up 2 grammar points I can't figure really out.It would help me a lot if I understand how those two sentences are build up and why they need those parts. 道子さんがquotationと言ってたから。 to itte :said takara I…
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んです Conjugation

We recently learned んです form in class and I think I understand when to use it. But I'm a little unclear about how conjugation of it works. んです　itself doesn't get conjugated, right? You conjugate the verb/noun/adjective that comes before…
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Is a sentence like 彼がやったんだ past or present tense?

For example, in an a situation like 誰がやった？ 彼がやったんだ Would the latter sentence be considered past or present tense? Is んだ a combination of の and だ with だ as a copula, or is it a different word altogether that functions more like other sentence…
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