Other usages of の

You've already learned that the particle can be used to express possession and that we can place it next to a pronoun to make the words my, yours, his, and hers.

This is not the only use of the particle however. It can be used in many situations where we don't use a possessive construction in English. The function of is often to describe the noun that follows it in terms of the noun that precedes it.

As you can see in the sentences above, when we put after a noun, it basically makes the noun behave as an adjective.

Until now, we have used counters after the words they count. A counter can however also be used in front of the word it counts if we put after the counter.

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