List: nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
Nouns that can be converted into genitive case using the particle の.
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- vocal music
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- unit price, unit cost
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) martial arts
- eastern direction
- the Orient
- eastern fighter in a match (e.g. sumo wrestling)
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- same kind, same sort, same species, same race, homogeneity
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- the south, southward, southern direction
- countries in the south (esp. Southeast Asia and the pre-WWII South Pacific Mandate)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- darkness, the dark
- bewilderment, despair, hopelessness
- hidden place, secrecy, oblivion
- black market, shady trading, underhand transactions, illegal channels
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- uniform, equal, even, the same, identical
- common, ordinary, usual
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- horticulture, gardening
popular obsolete reading JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- grey, gray, ashen
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- (husband and wife) both working, dual income