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Need help to better understand の. - wishroom - 2010-02-24
I understand it can be used as a replacement for nouns. Like for this sentence 物 is already being used for that purpose I think. So what exactly is の doing?
毎日同じ物を食べるのは、面白くない。
Thanks for any help.
Need help to better understand の. - Delina - 2010-02-24
In this case it is nominalizing the verb 食べる - making it into something like "the act of eating". You can't directly make the verb 食べる the subject of the sentence - 食べるは is ungrammatical. So you first turn 食べる into a noun with the nominalizing の, then it can be the subject. So you get:
"(the act of) eating the same thing every day, (it's) not interesting."
P.S. 物 is a noun, you're right, but it is serving as the object of the verb 食べる and not as the subject of the sentence.
Need help to better understand の. - wishroom - 2010-02-24
Ahh, I understand now. It's been bugging me for a while...
Thank you so much for your help.
Need help to better understand の. - genini1 - 2010-02-24
If you haven't read it yet the taekim grammar guide has a nice explanation for how and why it works in more detail in it's basic grammar section.
Need help to better understand の. - Offshore - 2010-02-24
I haven't even studied the の particle yet for the most part outside of the possessive qualities it can be used for, but damn.
Delina pretty much made that explanation so clear and concise that even I could understand it (as well as the sentence). Kudos to you!