ってAs for, Speaking of, Casual は (Sentence topic marker)

Used primarily in spoken language

Structure

Sentence topic + って

Details

About って

Although って can be used as a casual quotation marker in Japanese (replacing と), it is also frequently used as a casual topic marker (replacing は). This is something that occurs primarily in spoken language, and will come directly after the sentence topic, in exactly the same way as the adverbial particle は usually would.

Synonyms

Examples

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このパスタって美味(おい)しいよね。

As for the pasta, it is delicious, don't you think?

あの人(ひと)って誰(だれ)？

As for that person, who is it?

先生(せんせい)って優(やさ)しいね。

As for the teacher, she is nice, don't you think?

ギターって弾(ひ)けますか？

As for guitar, can you play it?

冬(ふゆ)って寒(さむ)いけど、雪(ゆき)は綺麗(きれい)だ。

As for winter, it is cold, but snow is pretty.

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って – Grammar Discussion

Most Recent Replies (6 in total)

IcyIceBear
スマホって高くないですか？
Smartphones, are they not expensive?/aren’t they expensive?
(Almost in a rhetorical way, like speaker already knows or suspects they are indeed expensive )

スマホって高いですか？
Smartphones, are they expensive?
(Sounds like they genuinely don’t have any clue whether they are cheap or not)

I would expand but it’s 2 am and I’m tired lmao hope this helps so last a little bit
Isurandil492
I see, the question tag carries the negative form, so it’s just that the translation is a bit loose. Question answered, thank you very much.
Alloran
You can use スマホって高くなくない？ to mean “Aren’t smartphones inexpensive?” ない with rising intonation is often used, without a particle, in casual speech merely to indicate a question (and is overwhelmingly the commonest pattern for invitations). Also 高くないじゃない？

With a touch more distance, スマホって高くなくないですか?

You can also nominalize the relative clause with の or, more casually, ん:

スマホが高くないんじゃない？This is like “Isn’t it that…” and would be very likely if e.g. their cheapness was the cause of something you were just talking about.