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The reason real-time translation is difficult: sometimes you have to wait for the end of the sentence. (lemmy.world)
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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago

It's the Japanese copula

a copula is a word or phrase that links the subject of a sentence to a subject complement, such as the word is in the sentence "The sky is blue" or the phrase was not being in the sentence "It was not being cooperative."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics)#Japanese