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For the following:

> 食堂の食べ物はあまり好きじゃないんだ。

It says that "I don't really like the cafeteria's food". What's the
significance in the ん near the end? Suppose it was dropped to make:

> 食堂の食べ物はあまり好きじゃないだ。

I'm not too sure what it does since there isn't any question being asked, so
the speaker doesn't seem to be asking for any sort of explanation.
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particle-の no-da
What's the implication of ん when not asking a question?
Firstly, `食堂の食べ物はあまり好きじゃないだ。` is not grammatical. じゃない cannot be followed by だ
in standard Japanese, so the correct version of this sentence with the ん
removed would simply be `食堂の食べ物はあまり好きじゃない。`

As for the meaning, this is a straightforward ordinary usage of the
"explanatory の", so it simply adds a certain explanatory nuance to the
statement. A similar effect could be achieved in English by adding something
like "you know" or "you see" to the end of the sentence, but it doesn't always
need translating at all, since it's quite a subtle difference.

In a sense, I might actually consider the version of the sentence with the
explanatory の to be _more_ neutral than the version without it, since
`食堂の食べ物はあまり好きじゃない。` sounds like a rather blunt statement that you'd be
unlikely to use as-is in conversation, whereas `食堂の食べ物はあまり好きじゃないんだ。` sounds a
little softened and so more like something you'd be likely to actually hear in
a variety of contexts.
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