"My brother is a student."

Translation: Мій брат - студент.

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What purpose the hyphen serve? Is this how you would normally construct the sentence in Ukrainian, or would it be written without the hyphen?

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TO show the omitted verb. I don't think it's usually done this way in everyday texts but in learning materials and for special instances for clarification it exists