~のだ / ~のです (explanatory)

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377 sentences

The sentence-ending のだ (plain) / のです (polite) — and their contractions んだ / んです — framing the preceding clause as an explanation, reason, or fact-being-told. After nouns and な-adjectives, な intervenes (なのだ / なんです). Conveys 'here is the situation,' 'it's that X,' or 'the reason is that X.' Extremely common in everyday Japanese for softening, contextualizing, asking for an explanation, or hedging a request.

377 sentences

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"To tell the truth, I'm afraid of heights." "Coward!"

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"So if I hadn't had to repeat the year, would you have gone out with me?" "I don't like hypothetical what-if talk."

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"Want to come over to my place for a bit?" "Is that okay?" "Yeah, both my parents work, so they come home late."

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'Um, Karin... don't you think we should wrap this up soon?' 'No way! No quitting while you're ahead! This time I'm going to win!'

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"Ah… I haven't been feeling well…" "Oh. Are you okay?" "Hehe. Actually, I'm just playing hooky."

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My lovely friend, to me you will be forever young.

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The only one I want is you.

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Basically I need money. Lend me some!

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In short, Sherlock is alive.

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He's gotten famous and he's putting on airs about it.

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When Kepler saw the smaller planets orbiting Jupiter, they reminded him of the bodyguards surrounding a king on a journey, so he named them satellites.

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The Demon King said: 'There's no way I'd lose. All the referees are in hell.'

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I'm really sorry, but it seems I've gone and left your scarf somewhere.

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It's usually the islanders who can see the mainland most clearly.

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I called Susan to apologize, but get this — she just hung up on me out of the blue!

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I absolutely need your help, no matter what.

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I tried all sorts of things — mixing yellow powder with white to make brown, mixing crystals with powder to make dust, combining liquids with solids to make mud, and so on.

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My friend was so drunk that I ended up having to drive him home.

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I feel like there's something missing from my life.

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To me, she's irreplaceable.

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What I'm hoping for is to end this unhappy relationship between us.

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Every time I fall in love, my dad tells me the girl is my half-sister.

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I guess you could say it was a lucky break — I got a job through an acquaintance's introduction.

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She's alive! She was about to drown, but her father saved her.

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She didn't marry him of her own free will.

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She's never even been asked out, you know.

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How on earth did she manage to pass that exam, I wonder?

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What on earth has gotten into her, I wonder?

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I didn't mean it like that.

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Someday I'll run like the wind again.