Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗particle
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryUsed at the end of a sentence as an assertive particle.
Borrowed from Japanese です (desu, “be”), the polite form of the Japanese copula, found most often at the end of a sentence. Know Your Meme attributes its spread to 4chan memes of the Rozen Maiden character Suiseiseki who ends every sentence with desu (see also キャラ語尾).
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- Borrowed-form mentionですja
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