Topic: German

"Da ist ja meine Schöne."

Translation:There is my beauty.

February 22, 2013

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    So ja is used here as an interjection, without any effect to the sentence?

    February 22, 2013
    https://www.duolingo.com/christian
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      It's a modal particle. You could translate it as "well" or "why".

      Why, there she is, my beauty.

      http://coerll.utexas.edu/gg/gr/mis_04.html

      February 22, 2013
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