それな (sore na)

What it means

1. 1.

   Exactly; this; so true. A whole-hearted agreement with what has just been said, and nothing more — it adds no content of its own.

Examples with translations

• —月曜って存在する意味ある？—それな。

  'Does Monday even need to exist?' 'Right?!'

• それな、まじで同じこと思ってた。

  Exactly — I was thinking the same thing.

Where it comes from

Literally 'that, huh' — それ ('that') plus the agreement particle な. Kansai speakers had been saying せやな for decades; それな is the standard-Japanese version, which spread nationally through Twitter in the early 2010s and is now firmly marked as young.

First attested: early 2010s

Other forms

Romanised as:

sore na