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03-22-2008, 05:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Gorotsuki View Post
If I wanted to say her singing is really good!

how would I say that

彼女の歌う本当にすごいだよ。そして彼女は可愛いだよ !
We Japanese never place だよ drectly after an adjective. If you do you will sound VERY foreign. Directly after a noun, you can.

Use んだよ if you want to use a form of だよ.

Example: すごいんだよ。可愛いんだよ。高いんだよ。うまいんだ よ。

But just in case you are still unfamiliar with the use the more formal ですよ form, don't even bother with this colloquial んだよ form. Just a native speaker's opinion.... I'd get pretty irritated if a stranger much younger than me came up to me and used the んだよ form.
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