Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Affirmatives/reply (8)

I can't speak much to dialectical use, but for mainstream Japanese, I would point out that I've never heard anyone use as an affirmative response to a question; I'm not even sure which reading you intend? is much more classical of tone and wouldn't be used by modern speakers in normal contexts; meanwhile, and  certainly see use, but then so does, as does simply repeating the verb, closely mirroring the trends in PIE-derived and other languages.