Thread: 君 ?
View Single Post
(#14 (permalink))
Old
KyleGoetz's Avatar
KyleGoetz (Offline)
Attorney at Flaw
 
Posts: 2,965
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Texas
11-27-2009, 05:46 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by chryuop View Post
I am not too much into informal Japanese since all textbook I have "worship" the ですます. Can you actually add the の directly to a name to make it as a question? I thought you still need the copula だ which in this case becomes な. クリスマスライブなの. I think it actually might be a possessive. As a title of a blob it might introduce what the blob is about. Not knowing what this Christams live is and what the blob is about tho we can only throw on the plate a huge amount of wild guesses.
クリスマスライブなの means, depending on inflection of the voice, "It is a Christmas concert" or "Is it a Christmas concert?" Sort of like あ、クリスマスライブなんだ。

When speaking informally, you can drop だ often in this situation. I would if I were asking something like this of my friends. If a friend of mine, Yoshino, invited me to a big New Years Eve event her father got her tickets for but didn't tell me what it was at first, I'd immediately ask 紅白なの? (紅白歌合戦 is the name of a very famous end-of-year "concert".)

And what's a "blob"?
Reply With Quote