Monday, May 2, 2011

Possisives

As an anarchist-communist parent, I tortured my syntax when talking to my baby about possession. We were walking through my housemates room at age two. "Jessica uses this room and has it set up in a way that works for her. It is not fair to rearrange the stuff in this room while she is using it without her permission." I wonder how they would do that in Japanese.
These examples should do it:

これ は わたし の えんぴつ です。

This is my pencil

それ は ひとみさん の くるま です。
That is Hitomi’s car.
あれ は わたしたち の じてんしゃ でした。
That over there was our bicycle.
The の particle adds possession as a postfix to nouns or pronouns.
There is lot here: vocab for this/that/that over there/I/we/you

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