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When can one use the sentence ender ぞ? I've only ever heard it anime, so I'm
unsure of it's actual usage in the real world. Is it not used that often or
limited to specific age/gender groups?
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In what situations can you use ぞ as a sentence ender
As far as I noticed, many people use

> 行くぞ - Lets's go

and it is used like 行こう/行きましょう（意向形）with a bit stronger sense when talking to
group of people, mainly if speaker is kind of coordinator / leader.
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Yes, it is a very emphatic sentence-ending particle. Also ぜ. They seems
stronger than よ (in my opinion). I think they (ぞ／ぜ) are very informal though,
so where you could use よ for emphasis in a polite and/or formal way, you
probably shouldn't use these.

I think their usage must be a regional or demographic thing. When I lived in
Osaka, I never heard it at all, and sometimes another gaijin friend of mine
would use it around our Japanese friends (mostly young people in their 20's),
they would always give an amused laugh. Maybe I'm over-generalizing it because
of the somewhat limited group I was around, but it doesn't _seem_ to be a
Kansai thing. Maybe other places use it more commonly?
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Borrowing from [page 277 of this grammar
textbook](http://books.google.com/books?id=0eprLex8sr0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA277#v=onepage&q&f=false)
and the [Daijisen
entry](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/leaf/jn2/127855/m0u/%E3%81%9E/)
flamingspinach linked to, ぞ is a (primarily masculine) sentence-ending
particle used to

  * express strong intent (そうはさせないぞ),
  * persuade someone to go along with your action (そろそろ行くぞ), or
  * (directed at yourself) indicate your judgment or resolution (うまくいったぞ).

なあ can usually substitute for ぞ in the third category. (This is covered in the
same section as ぞ in the abovelinked Google Books preview.) Note that when
using ぞ in the second category, ぞ follows the dictionary form of the verb.
This is in contrast to ぜ, which often follows the volitional form when the
intent is to get someone to participate in an action with you:

> 行くぞ。 I'm going [and so should you].
>
> 行こうぜ。 Let's go. (More emphatic than よ.)

ぞ never follows the polite form, and is only used toward friends and persons
of lower status.
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I often heard this particle used in the Yakuza games where lots of Yakuza
characters would use the ぞ／ぜ ending particle to to indicate dominance,
masculine and pretty much what Derek Schaab said.

Thus, it is recommended to not used it so casually, even if some Japanese
relative is a friend. Unless , of course, you're both into role playing tough
guys and such. I know the source isn't usually trust worthy, but
[Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_particles) pretty much explains
it in short
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