I read the Japanese like three times thinking I was misunderstanding, but when I clicked on the translation I was right, it just makes no sense. (This was in the context sentences for 立つ)
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Over there, standing (living thing), your, future, child, is. More or less. Whats so confusing?
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Like, time travelling i guess?
Or maybe youre adopting a kid, idk
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Or they’re getting married to somebody and they already have a child, and so by extension, they’re your future child.
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Yknow what, i liked the time travel story better, but i acknowledge that that is probably the most logical interpretation
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Don’t worry I also prefer the time travel story.
The doctor opened the door to the Tardis and whispered to Rose as he pointed
The Doctor: Do you see now Rose? The person standing over there is your future child.
Rose: But I wanted our journey to last forever.
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My interpretation is that someone smoked a lot of illegal substances and started hallucinating.
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I’m not 100% certain, but I think it’s just the grammar being used to transform the vocab from：
立つ → 立っている.
Like how “to eat” can be transformed 食べる → 食べます？ る → ます. ます is the polite form.
The context sentences don’t always use the exact way that you’ve just been shown, such as in this case I guess? You just have to learn grammar slowly or try and read it anyway.
After some research, I can see that ている is grammar used to represent something is “-ing” here is the bunpro link if you have that ている③ (JLPT N5) | Bunpro – Japanese Grammar Explained. I’m guessing for whatever reason the つ is turned into a little っ so we have “stand” + “ing” → “standing”.
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Reference to a Fire Emblem game?
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“Living thing” doesn’t seem to be indicated to me, at least not with the standing part.
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True. I don’t know what I was thinking.
It’s turned into little tsu because that’s how the te form conjugation works. This specific conjugation uses the te form.
立つ → 立って → 立っている
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Ah like maybe they have a kid already and are going to get married?
The literal translation would be:The one standing over there, is your future child. I’d say it’s kind of a Back to The Future 2 situation. 立っているのが can be used interchangeably with 立っている人が if both are referring to a person. What part doesn’t make sense to you? Maybe we can help😉
The つ turns into っ because たつている would be difficult to say.
I’m not sure if that’s the official reason, since つ isn’t the only ending that turns into って. But it does make it easier to remember
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Is the use of 未来 in that sentence correct? It does really sound like time travel with that 
.
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That would make them their child already.
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They are doing an ultra-sound and the doctor is telling the parents… maybe.
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