What dialects use だべ？


I feel like I hear だべ all the time (through TV and on the streets of Yokohama
where I live), but I'm wondering about it's origins and modern usage.




It's Tohoku dialect.

Basically, だべ is だろう, 行ぐべ is 行こう. There are a lot of variations though, as you
can say for example だすっぺ for でしょう.

I doubt though that your hear that a lot on TV, except during interviews of
people who suffers from the tsunami or nuclear accident. And it would be
subtitled anyway…

Edit: Ok, so it seems that だべ is in fact an "coastal" ending. This is why your
heard it in Yokohama, while in didn't where I lived. It's used all along the
Pacific coast, and is thus not restricted to Tôhoku. I do not know, though, if
they use べ without だ as in the examples I gave.

