N5 grammar

〜の

no

Linking two nouns

Formation

の glues one noun to another: possession most often, but also origin, type or material. The owner comes first and the thing owned second, the reverse of the English apostrophe. Chains of の are normal and read perfectly naturally.

Examples

〜の is marked in each sentence. Tap any word for its dictionary entry.

  1. The garage is at the side of the house.

  2. Do you offer any half-day tours?

  3. My weight is 58 kilograms.

  4. What is the title of the book?

  5. Dinner is ready.

The explanation is ours, written for this site. Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), each machine-checked to actually contain the pattern. Furigana is generated automatically, so a rare reading may be imperfect.