List: nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
Nouns that can be converted into genitive case using the particle の.
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- large quantity, massive (quantity), mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- underground, below the ground
- world of the dead, the grave
- underground (activities, movement, etc.), secret, illegal, in hiding
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- above ground, on the ground, earth's surface
- this world, this earth
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- addition, supplement, appending, appendix
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) abbreviation
- fixed period, fixed term
- regular, periodic, periodical
- fixed-term commuter pass
- fixed-term deposit
- futures contracts
popular obsolete reading JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) abbreviation interjection
- east and west
- Orient and Occident, East and West
- ladies and gentlemen!, your attention, please!, roll-up, roll-up
popular ateji rarely used kanji form noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective adverb
- natural, right, proper, just, reasonable, appropriate, deserved
- naturally, as a matter of course, rightly, deservedly, justly, of course
popular JLPT N2 noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- specific, particular, designated, special
- specifying, designating, identifying, pinpointing
popular JLPT N3 noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) adverb
- everyday, daily, ordinary, usual, routine, regular
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- brain death