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I am a total noob when it comes to Japanese, so I am reading よつば Vol.1 to try
and pick up some simple words/phrases.

On page 4, Yotsuba's father says, in response to her asking if there is a
festival that day:

> 学校だ学校

I understand that he is telling her that there is a school, but is there a
reason why he says this instead of just

> 学校だ

I figure this may just be an expressive thing, almost as if to say "Calm down,
it's just a school", but I wanted to check if there is some grammatical reason
why he says this.

Apologies if this question does not belong here, or if I have misunderstood
something!

The panel in question:

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Question about repeating the object after だ
> 「Noun + だ/よ/だよ, etc. + Same Noun」

is simply an emphatic way of saying

> 「Noun + だ/よ/だよ, etc.」

This expression is very common in informal daily conversations. You may want
to remember that in Japanese, words tend to get repeated more often than in
English.

Thus, 「学校{がっこう}だ学校」 here means " ** _You have school today. School!_** "

「学校」 here means "school" and not " **a** school".
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