I can see your confusion, and the explanations here don't seem to be helping much.? is best understood as a grammatical tag that makes whatever came before it a statement of plain fact, or assertion. Acceptable Japanese sentences can be as short as one word--adding the tag clears things up a bit, so: kuruma. (car) kuruma desu.
(it's a car) Kenta (proper name) Kenta desu. (I am Kenta) "imasu" means that something exists somewhere, it is used for sentient/animate things only. Note this key difference: imoutou desu.
It's my daughter. Imoutou ga imasu. I have a daughther/my daughter is there (in some place).
The final piece of the trifecta is "arimasu" which means literally "to have" but again, means that something exists somewhere, and is only used for inanimate/non-sentient things, so: kyoushitsu ni tsukue arimasu. There are desks in the classroom. So there you go.
("imasu") : formal form of?("iru") : (of animate objects) 'to exist', 'to be.
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