んだ and んです: What the Heck Is the ん?!

Although んだ (nda) and んです(ndesu) are very common ways of ending Japanese sentences, they can be challenging for English speakers to understand because there's no equivalent to these in English. In this episode, Kanae and Rachel discuss what these sentence enders really are (I mean, what the heck is the ん anyway, right?), and how they are used. After (or even before) listening to this episode, check out our grammar page about んだ and んです for more in-depth information: [

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んだ and んです: What the Heck Is the ん?! is an episode from The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language by Tofugu.

This episode is 00:28:36 long.

This episode was published on Aug 20, 2021.

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