Using は to indicate possession instead of の

One way to express the sentence Yuko's eyes are big in Japanese would beゆこさんの目めは大おおきいです, which is perfectly acceptable. However, using the particle は, we could write the sentence without the possessive particle の like this: ゆこさんは目めが大おおきいです.

In the latter sentence, which sounds more natural in Japanese, we do not have to directly specify that the big eyes are Yuko's. It is inferred that they belong to her because she is the topic of the sentence.

The table below includes more examples of this pattern using は instead of の.

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