{"id":403,"date":"2017-10-16T18:25:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T22:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/?p=403"},"modified":"2017-10-17T14:21:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T18:21:39","slug":"noun-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/complete\/no_particle","title":{"rendered":"Noun properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YK95vYZGL8U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The \u300c\u306e\u300d particle has many different uses but one of the most basic usages is for describing nouns with other nouns similar to how we described nouns with adjectives. This is usually used to describe ownership, membership, property or any other description that involves another noun.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to remember the order the modification takes place. You don&#8217;t want to inadvertently say &#8220;name&#8217;s me&#8221; when you meant to say &#8220;my name&#8221;.  If you&#8217;re unsure of the order, I recommend translating \u300c\u306e\u300d as &#8220;of&#8221; and reading it in reverse.<\/p>\n<h3>Examples<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>\u79c1 \u3010\u308f\u305f\u3057\u3011 &#8211; me; myself; I<\/li>\n<li>\u540d\u524d \u3010\u306a\u30fb\u307e\u3048\u3011 &#8211; name<\/li>\n<li>\u3053\u306e &#8211; this<\/li>\n<li>\u8eca \u3010\u304f\u308b\u307e\u3011 &#8211; car<\/li>\n<li>\u65e5\u672c \u3010\u306b\u30fb\u307b\u3093\u3011 &#8211; Japan<\/li>\n<li>\u30da\u30f3 &#8211; pen<\/li>\n<li>\u673a \u3010\u3064\u304f\u3048\u3011 &#8211; desk<\/li>\n<li>\u4e0a \u3010\u3046\u3048\u3011 &#8211; up; above<\/li>\n<li>\u304b\u3070\u3093 &#8211; bag<\/li>\n<li>\u4e0b \u3010\u3057\u305f\u3011 &#8211; down; below<\/li>\n<li>\u5148\u751f \u3010\u305b\u3093\u30fb\u305b\u3044\u3011 &#8211; teacher<\/li>\n<li>\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e \u3010\u306b\u30fb\u307b\u3093\u30fb\u3054\u3011 &#8211; Japanese language<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"toggleSpoilers(); return false;\">Toggle Translations<\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u79c1\u306e\u540d\u524d\u306f\u3001\u30ad\u30e0\u3067\u3059\u3002<br \/>\n<span class=\"spoiler\">Name of me (my name) is Kim.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u3053\u306e\u8eca\u306f\u3001\u65e5\u672c\u306e\u8eca\u3067\u3059\u3002<br \/>\n<span class=\"spoiler\">This car is car of Japan (Japanese car).<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u30da\u30f3\u306f\u3001\u673a\u306e\u4e0a\u3067\u3059\u3002<br \/>\n<span class=\"spoiler\">Pen is above of desk.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u304b\u3070\u3093\u306f\u3001\u673a\u306e\u4e0b\u3067\u3059\u3002<br \/>\n<span class=\"spoiler\">Bag is below of desk.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u7530\u4e2d\u5148\u751f\u306f\u3001\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u306e\u5148\u751f\u3067\u3059\u3002<br \/>\n<span class=\"spoiler\">Tanaka-sensei is teacher of Japanese (Japanese teacher).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>What&#8217;s your first name again?<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>\u4e0b\u306e\u540d\u524d &#8211; first name (lit: bottom name)<\/li>\n<li>\u4f55 \u3010\u306a\u306b\u3011 &#8211; what<\/li>\n<li>\u306a\u3093\u3067 &#8211; why<\/li>\n<li>\u3048 &#8211; huh, eh<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u30ea\u30fc\uff1a \u30b9\u30df\u30b9\u3055\u3093\u306e\u4e0b\u306e\u540d\u524d\u306f\u3001\u4f55\uff1f<br \/>\n\u30b9\u30df\u30b9\uff1a \u30a2\u30ea\u30b9\u3088\u3002<br \/>\n\u30ea\u30fc\uff1a \u30a2\u30ea\u30b9\u3061\u3083\u3093\u306d\u3002<br \/>\n\u30b9\u30df\u30b9\uff1a \u30ea\u30fc\u3055\u3093\u306e\u4e0b\u306e\u540d\u524d\u306f\uff1f<br \/>\n\u30ea\u30fc\uff1a \u30b8\u30a7\u30e6\u30f3<br \/>\n\u30b9\u30df\u30b9\uff1a \u30fb\u30fb\u30fb\u30ea\u30fc\u541b\u306d\u3002<br \/>\n\u30ea\u30fc\uff1a \u3048\u3001\u306a\u3093\u3067\uff1f<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"toggleSpoilers(); return false;\">Toggle Translations<\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"spoiler\"><br \/>\nLee: What is Smith-san&#8217;s first name?<br \/>\nSmith: (It&#8217;s) Alice.<br \/>\nLee: Alice-chan, huh?<br \/>\nSmith: What is Lee-san&#8217;s first name?<br \/>\nLee: JaeYoon.<br \/>\nSmith: &#8230;Lee-kun, huh?<br \/>\nLee: Huh, why?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Noun replacement<\/h2>\n<p>The \u300c\u306e\u300d particle can also replace the noun entirely when it&#8217;s understood by the context.<\/p>\n<h3>Examples<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>\u8d64\u3044 \u3010\u3042\u304b\u30fb\u3044\u3011 &#8211; red<\/li>\n<li>\u3069\u308c &#8211; which<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"toggleSpoilers(); return false;\">Toggle Translations<\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u8d64\u3044<em>\u306e<\/em>\u306f\u3001\u597d\u304d\u3002<br \/>\n<span class=\"spoiler\">(I) like the red one.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u30b9\u30df\u30b9\u3055\u3093<em>\u306e<\/em>\u306f\u3001\u3069\u308c\u3067\u3059\u304b\uff1f<br \/>\n<span class=\"spoiler\">Which one is Smith-san&#8217;s?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u300c\u306e\u300d particle has many different uses but one of the most basic usages is for describing nouns with other nouns similar to how we described nouns with adjectives. This is usually used to describe ownership, membership, property or any other description that involves another noun. It is important to remember the order the modification &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/complete\/no_particle\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Noun properties&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"series":[7],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nouns-and-adjectives","series-complete-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}