Kana: の

possessive particle

Example sentence

これは私の本です。

これはわたしのほんです。

This is my book.

What の means

(の) is a Japanese word meaning “possessive particle”. It belongs to the Grammar & Phrases topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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