日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 8

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日本の方からのご協力も大歓迎です

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Ah, I found that site looking over the previous threads, very useful looking, I'll have to read it over.


Seems like I'll have to keep reading things to really dig into the "Noun phrase" idea (I'm sure it has an easy enough English parallel), but the one page you linked me to about the "No" as a Particle doesn't seem to really talk about making phrases into nouns?

I dunno;  I also learned about the "No" particle from About.com (My current default learning source along with Genki), but About's list of "What No does" didn't really seem to point that out?  Maybe I just need to look at the examples, and just internalize the notion so I can more appropriately relate things.

After putting some thought into it, and having read all the page you sent me, it occurs to me that perhaps what the "No" is doing is /replacing/ a noun?  Is that the case?  Or is it closer to the explination of saying that "Who called" (呼んだの) is a noun unto itself?