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The Japanese Particle “NO”(の) : Nominalizer Meaning “The one I bought.” It’s important to note that you don’t say “cupcake” in these sentences. To refer to “the blue one.” If you buy the cupcake, and want to refer to the one you bought, you can say “Katta no” If you are being asked to choose between cupcakes, and you want the blue one (see, there’s the word “one” in English), you can say “Aoi no” This is a lot easier to understand with examples. You can’t put it by itself, because whatever comes before it determines what it is. Sometimes の is used as a pronoun to mean “one.” You can put it directly after i- adjectives, with a “na” after na- adjectives, or after verbs that are either in their dictionary form or past tense. This is definitely how you’ll hear it used the most in Japanese, and you’ll be able to pick it up through careful listening. Overall, there are a lot of uses for の as a phrase or noun modifier.

の can also show what something is made of, what attributes it has, or any other modification you could make to A. “Peach tree.” That one doesn’t even have a word in English that translates to の. Or “Peach tree.” That one doesn’t even have a word in English that translates to の.

Or “The exam on history.” You could say “Momo no ki” Meaning “The phone at the restaurant.” You could say But this is only one part of how の can modify a phrase or noun. Or “Tanaka-san’s book.” In English, you would translate の as the ’s at the end of a noun. This could be possession, such as “Tanaka-san no hon” When you have “の” between A and B, it is showing that B somehow modifies A. And I want you guys to be better than me as you learn Japanese, so I’m going to explain what の really is. That’s part of it, but not quite the whole picture.

TOTEMO MEANING JAPANESE HOW TO

The way I initially learned how to use の was as a “possessive” particle. The Japanese Particle “NO”(の) : Phrase Modifier