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I am having trouble understanding the second sentence below.

> ぼくのせいふくです。かっこいいな。

I understand that ぼく is "I / myself" for a boy, and adding a の to it makes it
a "my". I also know that せいふく is "uniform", and understand that the first
sentence means "This is my uniform." However, I do not understand the other
sentence.

かっこいいな means "cool" but how is the word used individually as a sentence? Is
this a typo, or am I misunderstood? Is the っ supposed to not be small, but
rather it's normal size to mean a different word of some sort?

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This is my first question on the Japanese Stack Exchange. I am familiar with
the Stack Exchange, and am a student learning Japanese who desires to go to
Japan and perhaps live there. I am highly interested in their culture, and I
also really love mathematics, for which I also post questions on the
Mathematics Stack Exchange.

Anything that I need to know, please tell me in comments or answers.

Thank you in advance.
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How is かっこいいな used individually as its own sentence?
First of all, I am not exactly sure about the word せいふ. If it means uniform,
it should be せいふく(制服).

Regarding かっこいいな, with the information you gave above, I would think that it
was his new uniform and that was his first time that he saw it. What he wanted
to say should be “This is my uniform! It’s so~ cool~~!”

IMHO, there is nothing wrong with かっこいいな in this sentence, since he is
describing his uniform with the phrase “cool”.
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