kyou wa jidouhanbaiki no ocha de wa naku, ie kara suitou o motte kita.

topic particle

Breakdown of kyou wa jidouhanbaiki no ocha de wa naku, ie kara suitou o motte kita.

• を: direct object particle
• 今きょ日う: today
• の: possessive case particle

Questions & Answers about kyou wa jidouhanbaiki no ocha de wa naku, ie kara suitou o motte kita.

Why is は used after 今日?

今日 means today, and 今日は makes today the topic: as for today or today, ...

This does not just mean simple time marking. It adds a slight contrastive feeling, like:

• Today, I didn't do the usual thing.
• As for today, I brought a bottle from home.

So 今日は sets up the sentence as talking about what happened today in particular.

What does 自動販売機のお茶 mean exactly?

Literally, it is the tea of the vending machine, but in natural English it means:

• tea from the vending machine
• vending-machine tea

Here, の connects 自動販売機 and お茶 and shows that the tea is associated with the vending machine — in other words, tea bought there.

It does not mean the tea somehow belongs to the machine in a possessive sense. Japanese の is broader than English 's and often means things like:

• from
• at
• related to
• type of

Why is it お茶ではなく instead of something like お茶を飲まずに?