Japanese: Sentence Ender Particles

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• ね : marker for shared information/feelings, asking for confirmation, assumes the listener knows, seeks harmony
• よ : marker for shared information/feelings, assumes the listener does not know
• よね : presents information to the listener and asks for confirmation
• な : marker for a remark addressed to oneself, more self-assertive than ね
• かな : question addressed to yourself, “I wonder”