• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    40·
    4 months ago

    I constantly mix up sore and sono. 😮‍💨

    For more context: They don’t just mean the same thing. One is a pronoun and the other is an adjective. Like the difference between the word THAT in the following sentences: “That which is given” vs “Hand me that.”

    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
      7·
      4 months ago

      Just remember that “no” is the particle that indicates possession, so you need to show what it’s possessing if you use it.

      Sore can be used as a subject or object directly:

      それを説明して下さい。
      Explain that please.

      Compared to:

      その話を説明して下さい。
      Explain that conversation please.

      Using “no” to show possession can be used without indicating the possessed word with regular nouns, but not the kono/sono/ano words.

      家のドアは大きい。
      The house’s door is big.
      家のは大きい。
      The house’s is big.