List: nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
Nouns that can be converted into genitive case using the particle の.
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- legend, folklore, tradition
popular JLPT N3 noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- unmarried, single
popular noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic) mathematics
- optional, voluntary, arbitrary, random, discretionary, facultative, spontaneous, any
- arbitrary
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- white paper, flyleaf
- blank paper
- clean slate, lack of prior opinion, positions, etc.
- scratch, beginning
popular noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic) Buddhism
- unrelated, unconnected, irrelevant, indifferent, divorced from, having nothing to do with one, being foreign to one
- without relations (esp. of a deceased person), having no surviving relatives
- unrelated to the teachings of Buddha, unable to be saved by Buddha
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) abbreviation
- solid body, three-dimensional object
- multi-storey car park
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- substitution
- alternative, substitute
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- at one's feet, underfoot, one's step (as in "watch your step")
- gait, pace, step
- most recent, current
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- whole area, whole region
- stretch (of land), tract, belt, zone
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- right hand
- right-hand side, right-hand direction, (on) the right