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I was reading a manga and a character who is really excited about the
situation says "毎日何度も指折り数えてですね！". Why does it end with the て form and why is
ですね added?

The full conversation is:

> A: 親から無事オッケーもらえて良かったねー  
>  B: はい！  
>  B: 私 ほんと 今日が楽しみで楽しみで  
>  B: 毎日何度も指折り数えてですね！
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word-choice conjugations て-form politeness
What's the meaning of the てですね ending?
This is functionally same as this one: [What exactly is this でね
construction?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/11950/7810)

> で is usually used to connect to phrases, but when the speaker is too excited
> about the first part already, s/he wants to affirm it with ね.

Except that:

  * verb's te-form is used here, which is equivalent to noun/na-adj. + で (duh)
  * has です in the middle

The seemingly dislocated です is put there to keep politeness (in order to talk
to a senpai) which otherwise nowhere to place in this (half-)sentence.
Generally, where final particles can be used, it can be buffed with です for
politeness even no copula is expected.

> 俺 **ね** 、昨日ホームセンターで **ね** 、こんな道具見つけたんだよ
>
> 私 **ですね** 、昨日ホームセンターで **ですね** 、こんな道具見つけたんですよ

This is a colloquial grammar, because use of final particles as such is.
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