particle N5 common casualpolite

よね — ~ right?

よね

Builds on よ

Meaning

~, right? — you state something you believe (よ) while checking the listener agrees or can confirm it (ね)

よね stacks よ's 'I'm putting this out there' onto ね's 'we agree, don't we?'. The result asks for confirmation of something you're fairly sure of — softer and less presumptuous than bare ね when you're not certain the listener already shares the view, and gentler than plain よ when you don't want to sound like you're correcting them.

Key sentence

明日あしたの会議かいぎ、三時さんじからだよね。

Tomorrow's meeting starts at three, right?

Formation

Attaches to	Form	Example
End of a plain-form sentence; with です/ます becomes ですよね/ますよね	… plain + よね / …ですよね	おいしいよね / 高たかいですよね

Examples

この漢字かんじ、こう書かくんだよね。

You write this kanji like this, right?

あの店みせ、もう閉しまったよね。

That shop closed down, didn't it?

やっぱり緊張きんちょうするよね。

You do get nervous, don't you.

Easily confused with

ね Bare ね assumes you both already see it (いい天気てんきですね); よね adds 'I think X — can you confirm?', used when you hold a view but want the listener to verify it. よよ alone just informs ('it's at three, you know'); adding ね turns the assertion into a check for agreement rather than a flat statement of fact.

See よね in real sentences

Jengo shows よね the way you actually meet it: inside real Japanese sentences, so it sticks instead of staying an abstract rule.

Study it in Jengo

Sources Compiled with reference to A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar.

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