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In my bilingual dictionary, ばかり is listed as a particle. Yet in a [tutorial on
ばかり](https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/tokoro-bakari/), I came across the
following sentence:

> 車を買ったばかり。
>
> I just bought a car.

What's weird to me is that the sentence ends in a particle (ばかり). How is this
grammatical?

  * Is this just a slangy way of saying this sentence?
  * Perhaps ばかり doubles as a noun, and there is an implicit だ (copula) being dropped at the end?
  * ...something else?
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grammar particle-ばかり
How is it grammatical to end a sentence with ばかり?
ばかり can work also like a no-adjective (which [is a
noun](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/2771/5010)), just as はず, ため and so
on can. So yes, this is a sentence with an implicit だ/です. The canonical
version of this sentence is (私は)車を買ったばかり **です** or (私は)車を買ったばかり **だ**.

Since ばかり can work as a no-adjective, you can say this, too:

  * 車を買ったばかりの男  
a man who just bought a car
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