Learn Japanese with Anime - The Person Standing Before You Is A Mage Who’s Lived For Over 1000 Years

Analysis

お前の前にいるのは

お(お)前(まえ) is the second-person pronoun “you”, referring to an equal or inferior.

の used between nouns is the modifying particle. With this particle, the preceding noun can modify the following noun.

前(まえ) means“front” and it’s followed by the location particle に so お(お)前(まえ)の前(まえ)に means “in front of you”.

い(い)る(る) is a verb meaning “to exist” or “to be” used for animate objects like people or animals.

の attached to a verb is the nominalising particle which turns the previous verb clause into a noun.

So お(お)前(まえ)の前(まえ)にい(い)る(る)の means “the one who is in front of you” which can be translated as “the person standing before you”.

は is the topic particle which shows the preceding word is the topic, and the rest of the sentence is the comment which refers to the topic.

千年以上生きた魔法使いだ

千(せん) is the number meaning “a thousand” and 年(ねん) is the counter suffix meaning “years” and it’s followed by 以(い)上(じょう) meaning “more than” or “over” so 千(せん)年(ねん)以(い)上(じょう) means “over a thousand years”

生(い)き(き)た(た) is the ta-form of a verb 生(い)き(き)る(る) meaning “to live”, so 生(い)き(き)た(た) means “lived”.

魔(ま)法(ほう)使(つか)い(い) is a compound noun made up of 魔(ま)法(ほう) meaning “magic” and 使(つか)い(い) meaning “user” so 魔(ま)法(ほう)使(つか)い(い) can be translated as “mage”.

When a verb is followed by a noun, the previous verb clause modifies the following noun. So 千(せん)年(ねん)以(い)上(じょう)生(い)き(き)た(た)魔(ま)法(ほう)使(つか)い(い) means “a mage who (has) lived for over a thousand years”.

だ (auxiliary verb) following a noun is used to affirm the statement.