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Anonymous
Desu is the formal japanese "copula" and is best translated as "is". For example, "heya" means "room", and "aoi" means "blue", so "Heya wa aoi desu" means "The room is blue." -- Japanese verbs always go at the end of a sentence, and "wa" simply marks the topic of the sentence.
The informal equivalent is "da". The opposite of "desu" is "ja nai", and I could go on all day listing various inflections and verb forms and so on but I doubt anyone else here much cares.
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