"I think Mr. Tanaka's mother is a teacher."
Translation:田中さんのお母さんは先生だと思います。
July 8, 2017
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Yeah - だ can be considered the plain form of です when applied to a noun, it functions similarly in expressing a state of being, and inflects in similar ways for the past and such.
You'll also see many occurrences of です though which can't be replaced by だ and which merely serve to make a sentence more polite - particularly those which follow an い-adjective. Those occurrences are also strange in that they can't be inflected:
楽しい - (It) is fun (plain)
楽しいです - (It) is fun (polite)
楽しかった - (It) was fun (plain)
楽しかったです - (It) was fun (polite)