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watashi no hon my book

Nihongo no Japanese (language)
hon books

watashi no my friend
tomodachi

heya no naka the inside of the room
ie no soto the place outside the
house

koko no gakkō the schools of this

place, the schools here
Tōkyō no ginkō banks in Tokyo

Amerika American newspapers
no shinbun

Nihon no company employees in

kaishain Japan

The expression NOUN + no is sometimes followed directly

by the copula desu ‘is (equals),’ as in:

“Ishida-san no desu.”
“Kore wa dare no desu ka.” “It’s Ms. Ishida’s.”

“Whose is this?”

2.11. ni

The particle ni indicates a “general sort of location” in space
or time, which can be made more specific by putting a place
or time word in front of it. The phrase heya ni means ‘at the

room, in the room.’ To say explicitly ‘in(side) the room,’ you