The given answer to the question I'm supposed to ask in my workbook is:
それは たけしさんの ぼうし です。
But I can't figure out if my question should be:
このぼうしは だれの ですか。
OR
だれの このぼうし ですか。
Thank you!
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Sign up to join this communityThe given answer to the question I'm supposed to ask in my workbook is:
それは たけしさんの ぼうし です。
But I can't figure out if my question should be:
このぼうしは だれの ですか。
OR
だれの このぼうし ですか。
Thank you!
I can't figure out if my question should be このぼうしは だれの ですか。OR だれの このぼうし ですか。
The first one is correct, because...
The genitive case particle の works like the English 's or of, as in:
わたしのぼうし my hat
あなたのぼうし your hat
たけしさんのぼうし Takeshi-san's hat
だれのぼうし whose hat
わたしのこのぼうし this hat of mine (lit. my this hat)
の can also be used for (someone)'s (stuff), as in:
わたしの mine
あなたの yours
たけしさんの Takeshi-san's (stuff)
だれの whose (stuff)
So...
それはたけしさんのぼうしです。 That is Takeshi-san's hat.
To turn this into a question asking だれの(whose), you'd replace たけしさん with だれ, add the interrogative particle か at the end (and replace それ with これ), as in:
これはだれのぼうしですか。 Whose hat is this?
そのぼうしはたけしさんのです。 That hat is Takeshi-san's.
To turn this into a question, you'd do the same: たけしさん→だれ, です→ですか (and replace その with この this time):
このぼうしはだれのですか。 Whose is this hat?