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Why is arimasen, which means "is not" the same thing as there's no hope?

> I am so lazy, **so there's no hope.**
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> 私はとても怠け者なので、 **希望はありません。**
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> Watashi wa totemo namakemononanode, **kibō wa arimasen.**

I would have thought that a one-to-one translation of "there's no hope" would
have made more sense, but Google Translate tells me that "arimasen" pretty
much means "there's no hope". Is there a reason for this?

The translation used was from English to Japanese, and I used the sentence:

> I am so lazy, **so there's no hope.**
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Why does "arimasen" mean "there's no hope"?
The crux of the matter is that you are focused around ありません, but you should be
focusing on the entire phrase 希望はありません, which you have in bold.

**ある** means (as pertaining to an intimate object) [to exist; to
have](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%9C%A8%E3%82%8B), among other things. ありません is
the negative form, don't have/does not exist. You should also check out this
[webpage](http://guidetojapanese.org/learn/complete/existence) about usage for
existence verbs, as it might clear up some confusion.

**希望** means [hope](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%B8%8C%E6%9C%9B).

**は** is your topic marker.

Doing a linear translation we get the following:

> 希望はありません  
>  (lit) hope (topic) exists not.

In more natural English:

> There is no hope.
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