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- "Your friend is my enemy."
"Your friend is my enemy."
Translation:Dein Freund ist mein Feind.
August 3, 2017
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"to be" is not a transitive verb that takes a direct object.
You can't say that the enemy "is being been" by your friend.
"to be" is a copula - a linking verb that links a subject to a predicate that says something about the subject.
Such predicates are (almost always) in the nominative case in English. (And, traditionally, in English -- conservative speakers will say "it is I" and not "it's me".)