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)
- in the city, within the city
popular JLPT N5 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)
- question, inquiry, enquiry
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) adverb noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- up to now, so far
- traditional, conventional, usual, existing
popular JLPT N1 noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) noun (prefix) noun (suffix)
- first, new
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) grammar
- woman, female
- feminine gender
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- popularity, public favor
- condition (e.g. market), tone, character, nature
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) Buddhism
- the world, society, the universe
- sphere, circle, world
- world-renowned, world-famous
- realm governed by one Buddha, space
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- system, institution, organization, organisation
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- (doing) together
- one lump, one mixture, the same category
- the same, identical
- (at) the same time
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) physics biology meteorology astronomy chemistry mathematics
- stone (of a fruit), pit, pip
- core (of an organization, team, etc.), nucleus, heart
- nuclear weapons
- nucleus (of an atom)
- nucleus (of a cell)
- condensation nucleus
- (planetary) core
- ring (in a cyclic compound)
- kernel, core
- nucleus (of a cultured pearl)