How... どう
Here is
a very useful question word -- どう dou --
Let's look at ways of using dou.
| どう です か？
dou
desu ka? How is
(it)? [Use this for asking about food, or anything that is being done now]
どう でした か？ dou deshita ka? How was (it)? [Use this to find out about past experiences - movie, last night's date, molded pizza you just ate...] |
OTHER WAYS!
| どうやって？ dou
yatte? How do you do it? [Ask this when you are not sure how to do
something]
どう しました か？ dou shimashita ka? What happened? [Ask this if someone looks sad or something has happened] どうしよう dou shiyou What shall (I or we) do? [This is often used when you can't make a decision and want help... doushiyou, ne!] どう する の？dou suru no? What will you do? [When you want to encourage someone to make a decision -- Well, what will you do?] |
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No 『の』
どう する の？
What does 'no' function (or mean) here?
Ｒｅ: 『の』
I believe its softens the sentence, like ね.
I used to think の in these cases would mean like "plug in the obvious," 'cause its known as the connector. :3
（あなたは）どうする？
の
の in this case is similar to か。It's a question marker. But it's more...umm...casual than か
But you can still add か
But you can still add か after the の when its like this. I don't know if its correct, but my friends used のか sometimes so I do too. :3
の
Oh yeah. There is another の that goes at the end. XD The 'explanation' の. I believe that's the の you're thinking of →のか。I'm...umm..pretty certain. ^_^;
Ok...
So to sum it up, 「...の?」could be a hybrid of「...か?」 and 「...ね.」, am I right?.. or another misconception?
の・か・ね
の・か・ね are all sentence ending particles. If you're a beginner I suggest you treat の and か as the same till you learn more. As for ね treat it more like "blah blah blah, yeah?" or the like.
And yes, there are more than just those three.
!<(ﾟoﾟ)>! Whoa!
More than three?!?.. Hehehe... Gotta brace myself... Thanks for the help, Oni-san and Mattan-san!