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I've read that people usually change ない to ねー to make it more manly, like:

したくないよ becomes したくねーんだ

So basically i often heard questions ending with ない but have not heard anyone
end a question with ねー

Hence this question: can we use ねー as a question?

Example:

[There's a party tomorrow]

明日、行かない？ converted to 明日、行かねー？

what about this: 明日、行かねーんだ？
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can we use ねー as a question?
As you say, ねー is a (very) informal, rather masculine, way of replacing ない at
the end of words.

Works for both verbs:

行かない → 行かねー

and い-adjectives (which are kind-of-verbs anyway, but let's not get into that
debate here):

危ない【あぶない】→ アブねー

in fact it also works with other "-a" kanas. E.g:

ヤバい → ヤベー

Adding のだ/んだ as you do in your example is only warranted if you are making it
a strong assertion: 行かねーんだよ！

And frankly, unless you spend your Saturday evenings loitering on the
sidewalks of Sentâ-gai, you probably don't want to speak like that.

**As a question** , it works just the same as the ない form (sort of a loose
equivalent to the "isn't it" form in English):

行かないか？ → 行かねーかー？

... is "grammatically" correct (with or without "明日"), but rare (sounds really
rough/rude to me). Probably because ねー is a fairly colloquial form, which is
only acceptable because it refers to yourself (and thus "俺が行かねー" is OK), but
when you are asking the question form, you are using it on _somebody else_. If
that person is standing in front of you, no matter how close you are, this
could sound rather rude. Only acceptable context I can think of, would be
referring to an abstract third-party:

誰か行かねーか？

This aside, the question form of ねー would mostly be used for **rhetorical**
questions:

行かねーかー/行かねーかなー ("Hmnn... Should I go?")

or "semi-rhetorical" questions like:

アブねーなー？/アブねーかなー ("isn't it kinda dangerous?")
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