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These sentences will all be translated into Japanese using an appropriate noun and the word desu.
~ desu = It is..
| じゅうにじ はん です (Juuniji han desu) | (It) is half past twelve |
| がくせい です (Gakusee desu) | (I) am a student |
| にほんご です (Nihongo desu) | (My major) is the Japanese language. |
Note that none of these sentences has a “subject”, like the “it”, “I”, and “my major”, found in their English counterparts. Sentences without subjects are very common in Japanese; Japanese speakers actually tend to omit subjects whenever they think it is clear to the listener what or who they are referring to.
