私たちは森の獣だ。

(what I'm attempting to say: "we are beasts of the forest.")

(not all of us are wolves, and "beasts" is mighty poetic!)

(watashi-tachi ha mori no kemono da.)

「私たちは森の獣だ」
「私」= I/we
「たち」= explicit plural to make it 'we' (note: can only be used for people)
「は」= (topic marker)
「森」= forest
「の」= (like 'of' but backwards)
「獣」= beast(s)
「だ」= explicit "is/are" (it would be implied otherwise, but being explicit gives it emphasis)

@frostwolf strictly speaking, in statements of identity like this ("noun x is noun y"), だ (or the politer です) is grammatically necessary to include

@frostwolf the rules surrounding when you should use だ and です are complicated, because they serve a couple different functions... for instance, many adjectives function as verbs on their own - if you wanted to say "i'm cute", 「私はかわいい」is correct in its own and does not take だ at all, and you'd only add です for politeness

@typhlosion *blinks* Oh /huh/, I thought I had a handle on it after your first comment but nope. x3

(ooh, more critters around us know Japanese! =^.^=)

@typhlosion So だ is only just for emphasis when there's already a different verb there?

... and is かわいい an "is-cute" verb in Japanese /instead/ of an adjective, or somehow both? Like the thing we're reading said liking things is an adjective (like you'd say "the thing is likable") instead of a verb, I'm wondering if this is like that but the other way around, or more complicated than that.