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1. だ is the informal version

1. だ is the informal version of です.
2. I'm at quite an early stage of learning japanese, so I don't know about the alternatives. For what I've heard の is for possession, but I know for sure that it can be used in words, too. (きもの). I really don't know about this, sorry.


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