Japanese expressions of possession -The No Particle.
The NO particle : That symbol to the left is the no particle.
The NO particle is affixed to a noun and indicates possession. The construction for this easy Japanese grammar principle is easy to apply and use. It will definitely come in handy both in your Japanese conversation and comprehension - The construct is as follows:
NOUN NO = 'S
Ex. 1 The dog's food. Inu no esa. Inu (dog) no = the dog's.
Ex. 2 Tom's car - Tommu no kuruma.
You might be asked, " Who's is it?" to which you could reply, it's mine, or, it's yours or, it's his, or it's theirs or its ours. In each case no would be used to indicate possession as in the following:
it's mine - watakushi no
it's your's - anata no (plural anata tachi no)
it's his - kare no
it's her's -- kanojo no
it's their's - karera no
it's our's - watakushi tachi no
who's? - dare no?
Just plug in your favorite noun and Japanese Grammar Plug and Play JPPGG; - Towards Better Japanese
As always,
Ganbatte Ne!
Do Your Best!Makurasuki Sensei.
See other interesting Japanese grammar articles at
Sake Talkie or
Japanetics
for Russian, or Spanish Speakers desirous of learning how to speak Japanese quickly try these blogs out for size:
Spanish Japanese
Russian Japanese
Amazon Spotlight on Sanseido Japanese To English Dictionary
Sanseidos Daily Concise Japanese En :5ED
Amazon Price: (as of 12/30/2009)
Feed My Search on Japanese Grammar
- Feedmysearch needs your opinion, help and advice
- Dear feedmysearch user, Feedmysearch would require some serious server upgrade and a bit of developm...
Japanese Stuff On Ebay
Fetching new data from eBay now... please stand by
New Del.icio.us bookmarks
Great Stuff on CafePress
No indicates possession. So get yours now!
Japanese Ebay
Fetching new data from eBay now... please stand byReader Feedback
-
Reply
- Bloggeritaville Bloggeritaville Mar 4, 2008 @ 9:27 am
- Heya Brettkun, welcome to the cool kids on Squidoo :) Left you feedback on your lens and favorited it. Very cool stuff! You've put a lot of time and effort into your lens and it rocks! Great job! If you get some time, come check some of my stuff out as well! Would love the feedback.
Thanks,
Bloggeritaville.
-
Reply
- EditorDave EditorDave Feb 16, 2008 @ 7:18 pm
- Konnichi wa! Nice Lens. Watakushi NO lens http://www.squidoo.com/niseko and http://www.squidoo.com/narita could complement Anata NO lens, Ne? Drop on by and visit and say "Hi"!
Dave
http://www.squidoo.com/submarines
-
Reply
- kidroxster kidroxster Feb 7, 2008 @ 6:43 pm
- ornamental? you mean oriental?
-
Reply
- CrashXprt CrashXprt Oct 10, 2007 @ 2:10 pm
- I like the no particle. It looks very oriental to me. It is almost the epitome of ornamnetal oriental to me. Thanks for another great free Japanese Lesson.
New Donations
Nuci's Space is a resource center for musicians, providing low cost counseling for suicide prevention, and low cost climate controlled practice spaces for musicians.
My Japanese grammar feeds
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byNew Orbitz!
by brettkun
Makurasuki Sensei, Brett McCluskey. enjoys sharing his knowledge of Japanese Grammar with those serious about becoming fluent. He appl...
(more)Explore related pages
Japanese Vocabulary Blaster 48- Japanese Vocabulary Blaster #48 15 Words Every 2 Days. Learn, Memorize, Drill St...
Japanese Vocabulary Blaster 28- Japanese Vocabulary Blaster #28 15 Words Every 2 Days. Learn, Memorize, Drill St...
DIY Japanese - Japanese Grammar Plug and Play- Japanese Language Mastery Toward Better Japanese. Japanese Grammar Plug and Play...
Ghetto Grammar #106 - Making Japanese Grammar Interesting. JPPGG- Ghetto Grammar - Japanese Bunpo lesson #106 Today’s lesson f...
Japanese Vocabulary Blaster 19- Study, Memorize! 15 new Japanese words every 2 days GO! 1. isu - seat, chair 2....
Japanese Vocabulary Blaster 23
- 15 Words every 2 days. Learn, Memorize, Study, Get quizzed, GO! 1. yakamashii -...
