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Ne vs Yone? 2014/2/27 07:43
I've read many pages on this question, but I still don't get the difference between ね and よね. When do I use each one? What tone do they create?


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Re: Ne vs Yone? 2014/2/28 06:43
tl;dr: よね is basically a kinder, gentler よ. You use it instead of just よ when you want to soften it a bit and sound less assertive.

Normally, よ and ね are contradictory. よ implies that the speaker is asserting something which the hearer doesn't know, or could even be contradicting something the hearer said just before. So よ is strong, it's like "that's how it is, I'm telling you". ね implies the exact opposite: the speaker is stating something which the hearer already knows, so ね is a lot less assertive, more like "that's how it is, right?"

So よね is used to soften よ. First there's よ, which makes an assertion, but it is followed by ね, which makes it softer because you then ask for the hearer's agreement.
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Re: Ne vs Yone? 2014/2/28 07:49
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