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I'm familar how ん can help form contractions like:

  • んです ↦ のです
  • なんです ↦ なのです

but I recently came across んの:

あれ お兄ちゃん なんで鍵なんか閉めてんの？

What is this short for? My best guess is that ん is short for いる and の is short for のですか. Is this the case?

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  • See also: https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/61958/why-is-the-%e3%81%a6-form-being-used-before-%e3%82%93 and https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/53668/what-is-the-formal-expression-of-%e4%bd%8f%e3%82%93%e3%81%a7%e3%82%93%e3%81%a0 – Mindful Sep 27 '23 at 16:52

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