When to omit だ when answering questions? Maybe this is a stupid question, but in _Minna no Nihongo_ it says to omit when giving a **positive answer** to a question. > Question: > Answer: **** But it is not explained if one can omit when answering this way: **Example 1** > Question: > Answer: (?) **Example 2** > Question: > Answer: (?) Do I have to put at the end of these two answers or should I omit it?

Grammatically in your cases using or omitting does not make any difference.

But Japanese speakers use specific forms in specific situations, and it changes when the relationship between speakers changes.

In both example, the question sentence and is quite casual, and sounds like the speakers are female. Using a single for the end of a sentence is strong and mostly used by male speakers, so I will omit it here. If you want to use , adding another sentence ending particle after it will be more natural. Ex.