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casual it is / going to; also hey

After a noun ending in a vowel it is the casual form of to be: 소개팅이야 "it's a blind date", 다 그자 때문이야 "it's all because of him". It also closes the very common 거야, the casual way to say what is going to happen or what the situation is (같이 먹을 거야? "are we eating it together?"). Separately, 야 attached to a name calls that person (올리야 "Olly!"), and standing alone as a shout it is a blunt hey — friendly among close friends, rude to anyone else. After a consonant the to-be form is 이야.

Register: casual; the standalone 야 is blunt

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이제 이 마취 효과가 끝났을 거 , 아마