「ね」 vs 「な」 in 「そうだね」 /「そうね」/ 「そうですね」


[Another thread](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/370/264) stated that
when expressing agreement, we can choose between 「ね」 and 「な」. 「ね」 is more
feminine and 「な」 is more masculine.

By that, would 「そうな」 be the masculine form of 「そうね」 ?

Also, since 「そうだね」 and 「そうですね」 both use 「ね」, are they actually the feminine
form of 「そうだな」 and 「そうですな」?




な functions like ね. What is particularly feminine about そうね is primarily the
omission of だ, not the use of ね, so just changing ね to な in そうね doesn't make
it masculine. You'd need だ to make it sound more masculine.

I'm not sure I understand why you think that そうですな is ungrammatical, so all I
can say is that そうですな _is_ in fact grammatical (and not odd either). そうですな is
often used and is masculine speech, but carries the nuance of being masculine
speech for males over 40, say.

There is a separate question about ですな: [What nuance does "ですな"
bring?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/6806/what-nuance-
brings-%E3%81%A7%E3%81%99%E3%81%AA).

_Edit._ I think one should also point out that ね is not a gendered particle
and is used by females and males alike. In a formal context, a male speaker
would most likely say そうですね, so it seems you are assuming a false dichotomy: ね
is not necessarily feminine (and な is not even decidedly masculine). In
informal speech, males may choose to use な instead of ね. So I can't see how it
is "right" to say that そうだね is the feminine version of そうだな. Depending on tone
& context, a female speaker may use そうだね or そうね or そうなのよね (or indeed something
else) to the same effect a male speaker would use そうだな. そうですな isn't just male
speech either, so it's hard to say that its "feminine" variant should be
そうですね, because そうですね isn't necessarily feminine.




I think there are no much differences between そうだね, そうだな, そうですね and そうね.

To tell the careful thing, そうですね is the polite form, and そうね sounds like (a
little bit!) childish.

I don't know no other versions except for dialects.

By the way, そうですな is not wrong, but it sounds **funny**.

Because if you say so, I feel like you are an elderly gentleman.

