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> 「えとー、隣に人乗る時ありますけど、なんかこう前が壁じゃないですか。」

The translation in the subtitle was “Because, sometimes people do sit next to
me but there’s a sort of wall in front of you.”

I don’t understand where the じゃない fits into the translation of where “because”
is in the sentence either.
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grammar word-choice word-usage
Reason for using じゃないですか in this sentence?
As the post mentioned in comments says, to understand the sentence better,
simply substitute じゃないですか with です. Here じゃないですか, roughly speaking, plays a
role of "isn't it?" or "right?" (it would be a negation if there wasn't か in
the end of the sentence, which, in fact, is a question marker), so the second
part of the sentence is a statement that asks (but rather rhetorically) your
interlocutor if they agree with your or understand you.
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