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So I encountered this sentence in a manga

> 泣きたい日もあるじゃない

and I thought it was weird but meant something along the lines of "I never
feel like crying", because of the negation of 泣きたい日もある, which I understand as
"There's (also) some days when I/you want to cry" (of course I'm imposing the
first person pronoun, but you can change it accordingly).

Just to check, I looked up the translation of the manga, as well as used
deepl.com and they both translate this sentence as "Some days you just want to
cry", which is the opposite of what I thought at first!

I looked parts of the sentence up thinking this may be a usual grammar point
but can't find anything. Could someone explain what's going on?
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negation grammar
Problem understanding 泣きたい日もあるじゃない
I'm not sure if I actually learned this in my classes, but I hear and use this
all the time. Imagine it as saying "There are days you want to cry, aren't
there?". The じゃない is being used to ask for confirmation from the other person
rather than negate the statement itself. To negate this sentence I would
change the ある to ない, but in this context it sounds a bit depressed like the
speaker feels nothing and doesn't even want to cry.

Here's a couple of short example dialogues that might help put it into more
context.

なんで泣いている？ Why are you crying?

得に理由がないけど、泣きたい日もあるじゃない？ There's no real reason, but there are days you just
want to cry, aren't there?

An example of negated 泣きたい

悲しいのに泣きたくもない I'm sad but I do not want to cry.
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