かな at the end of a line is thinking out loud: どうしようかな = “what should I do, I wonder”. It softens a question or a plan.
Everyday and soft. Fine even at work in casual chat.
In a scene about a senior coworker leaving, one performer says the moment has finally come.
I wonder if it's OK.
Textbook大丈夫でしょうか。Casual sentence-final 「かな」 ('I wonder') follows 「大丈夫」 directly, replacing polite 「でしょうか」.
One performer describes seeing something put into an unused gap and asks if it seems like a 'funeral for dead space.'
A funeral for space, maybe?
Textbookスペースのお葬式でしょうか。Casual sentence-final 「かな」 ('I wonder') attaches straight to the noun, replacing polite 「でしょうか」.
Kids notice the samurai from earlier and wonder whose dad he is.
Hey, do samurai take photos and stuff like our dads do?
Textbook侍も、私たちの父のように写真などを撮るのでしょうか。Plain 「撮る」 + casual 「のかな」 replaces polite 「のでしょうか」; 「さ」 is a filler and 「とか」 means 'and stuff.'
From other routines in the library. Automatic transcripts, not yet checked line by line.
〜かな means “I wonder…”. かな at the end of a line is thinking out loud: どうしようかな = “what should I do, I wonder”. It softens a question or a plan.
With friends: OK. With coworkers: OK. With a boss or teacher: careful. Everyday and soft. Fine even at work in casual chat.
In 1,905 live comedy routines, 〜かな appears in 965 lines from 205 comedians.