--- Examples ---
誰だい。
Who is it ?
何をこそこそしているんだい。
What are you doing sneaking around ?
いつまで起きているんだい。早く寝なさい！
When are you staying up to ? Just go to bed!
その優しげな目の奥にあるのは本当に何を知りたいんだい?
What do you wanna know in your cute eyes?
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Typical 'standard politeness' question ends in
ですか or Vmますか。(e.g. いますか。Are (you) in?)
Casual questions can omit the ? particle and use
tone. (e.g. 誰だ？ Who is it?)
Alternatively だい and かい can be used.
The plain form with か is quite abrupt and rough. (contributor: Amatuka)
Need better example ^^v (contributor: Amatuka)
いつまで起きているんだい。早く寝なさい！
何をこそこそしているんだい。
(contributor: Miki)
I'm not sure about 'いつまで起きているんだい 。'
Would that be more like
'When do you think you're staying up till?'
? (contributor: Amatuka)
dai is used at the end of a sentence (well it is a sentence ending particle
;-)
S = Sentence (contributor: Amatuka)
I'm not sure of the difference of nuance in English. The situation u use
this sentence would be when you scold a child, when you tell a person
feeling bad, etc. (contributor: Miki)
Is だい only used when there's a negative nuance (i.e. when someone is
being scolded?) (contributor: jacobhart)
No, I don't think so. For
example, 君の犬の名前は、なんていうんだい？ What's your
dog's name? It doesn't have negative nuance at all. (contributor: Miki)
い is a particle added to the end of sentence for added emphasis and
predominantly used by male speaker in an anvironment where politeness to
the extent of requiring the use of honorifics is not required.For example
an average (note 'average')female speaker would not say なんだい but in
the equal environment she would say なによ.
(contributor: bamboo4)
Female would say の instead of だい.
いつまで起きているの。犬の名前は何ていうの。
(contributor: Miki)
There is some screw up because the second 'dai' is supposed to be 第 which
should be deleted because it has nothing to do with grammar. (contributor:
bamboo4)
I don't think だい as a suffix particle belong to Level 1. (contributor:
bamboo4)
changed it to level2. tho to be honest i havent heard this much..
(contributor: dc)
is 'dai' is masculine? (contributor: whitepeacock)
Ive been told that dai is only used with question words
(なに、どこ、いつ etc).
If not with a question word then kai is used.
I think only certain regions of Japan use them. (contributor: childsnake)
I've usually heard old women and men use 'dai' more than anyone.
(contributor: nazonatte69)
I have asked everyone I work with in date and no one has ever heard だい
used in this way. where did this come from?
ADDITON:
A have finally heard this grammar point used by a native Japanese person.
she is a 70yr+ English teacher. I asked her about it, and she said it might
be a word used more often by older people.
darn wipper snappers don`t use it to often.
(contributor: tigert)
I looked in the PDF of Meguro Language Center for JPLT2 and I didn't found
strings 'だい。' or 'だい?' in the list of grammar points appearing in
past test.
I looked in the site http://www.japonin.com/intermediate-grammar-list.php
and there is no reference too.
Are you sure this is useful for level 2 of JPLT? (contributor: 赤毛)
I'm watching Tiger & Dragon dorama. And the dorama shows that Edokkos (the
owns whose family is from tokyo) use it all the time, even the young ones.
(contributor: wuerges)
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