what is the use of で in 日本料理は京都の料理でたいへん美味しい found it at the kanji workbook of shin nihongo no kiso. would it be something like "among the japanese cuisine, kyoto's cuisine is specially tasty"? I know that is used to say "among" but the only example I know is using SAdj

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The content of the sentence is somewhat questionable, but it is a grammatical sentence and it can be analyzed as such.

**_The here is an auxiliary verb, not a particle_**. is the []{} (the conjunctive / continuative form) of the affirmation auxiliary verb . This can be replaced by .

The author could have used a **comma** and wrote:



It is saying **two separate things** , which is why you need a to connect them.

1) Japanese cuisine is (or "means") Kyoto cuisine.

and

2) It is delicious.

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