List: nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
Nouns that can be converted into genitive case using the particle の.
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- supervision, control, superintendence, direction
- director, superintendent, supervisor, coach, foreman, manager, overseer, controller, boss
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- basics, fundamentals, basis, foundation
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb intransitive verb noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- expectation, anticipation, hope
- promising, rising, up-and-coming
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) shogi abbreviation archaic noun (suffix) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) suffix counter
- muscle, tendon, sinew
- vein, artery
- fiber, fibre, string
- line, stripe, streak
- reason, logic
- plot, storyline
- lineage, descent
- school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)
- aptitude, talent
- source (of information, etc.), circle, channel
- well-informed person (in a transaction)
- logical move (in go, shogi, etc.)
- ninth vertical line
- seam on a helmet
- gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.)
- social position, status
- on (a river, road, etc.), along
- counter for long thin things, counter for roads or blocks when giving directions
- street (in Osaka)
- (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- finance, financing, credit transacting, loaning of money, circulation of money
- monetary, financial, credit
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) adverb noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) noun (suffix) grammar Buddhism noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- the present, present time, now
- as of
- present tense
- this world, this life
- to actually exist, to exist right now, to exist right in front of one
popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) adverb archaic
- behind, rear
- after, later
- remainder, the rest
- more (e.g. five more minutes), left
- also, in addition
- descendant, successor, heir
- after one's death
- past, previous
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- effect, effectiveness, efficacy, result
- effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- action, conduct, behaviour, behavior, mobilization, mobilisation
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N4 noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) obsolete term
- international
- diplomatic intercourse