「わからない事は聞くのよ」What makes this imperative?


This is used in an imperative sense: "If there's anything you don't
understand, just ask."

I wanted to know how the particles worked to give this tone, since, without
the particles, it could've been a general sentence saying "I/you/we ask things
I/you/we don't understand."




Even though it may look like an imperative **_in that translation_** , it
would not be expressly called "imperative" among us native speakers. It is
only "imperative-ish" at best.

「のよ」 makes a phrase a soft-sounding and mostly-feminine way to remind the
listener of the need to perform a certain action (as in a good piece of
advice).

「わからない事は聞く **のよ** 。」: mostly feminine

「わからない事は聞く **んだよ** 。」: largely but not entirely masculine




Even though it may look like an imperative **_in that translation_** , it
would not be expressly called "imperative" among us native speakers. It is
only "imperative-ish" at best.

「のよ」 makes a phrase a soft-sounding and mostly-feminine way to remind the
listener of the need to perform a certain action (as in a good piece of
advice).

「わからない事は聞く **のよ** 。」: mostly feminine

「わからない事は聞く **んだよ** 。」: largely but not entirely masculine

