だろう

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  Lamster

  Unless I’m mistaken, “masculine” expressions simply use the plain forms of verbs. There’s nothing inherently “masculine” about that.

  It’s just that society thinks it’s more acceptable for men to speak in a plain/not particularly polite way, while women are supposed to be polite and cute and cultured and whatever.

  I’d suggest just learning the grammar and then deciding for yourself what’s acceptable to use for you and in which situations. And until you can do that, just use the polite form of everything, regardless of your gender.

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  MZa

  The explanation says that だろう is a conjugated form of だ’. I was wondering which form it is. The おう ending would point to the volitional form. Is that right? If it is, the nuance of だろう compared to だ would make sense.

  Edit: i did a bit of research and it seems that my hypothesis is right. Since だ is a shortened である and あろう is the volitional form of ある, であろう would have been shortened in だろう, right?

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  MZa

  Since だろう is just a form of だ as said in the new explanation, I guess there is no more reason to use a particle when using the former than when using the later.