Adjectif en -な + NomQualifiant un nom

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  byrd9999

  Hi,
  I came to post the same question.

  I have read the above explanation, but i don’t think “no” is acting like a nominaliser for two reasons .

  1. Uncle Ben is already a noun and doesn’t need nominalising.
  2. The “no” is more likely referring to the words as being Uncle Ben’s.

  DeepL also translates the sentence as being the words of dear Uncle Ben. Not that this is the final word in translation, but it seems that is the most obvious one.

  There is no further explanation regarding this sentence in Bunpro, where it is the only sentence in this entry where the adj+na is not directly in front of what it is modifying.

  Either this is a confusing translation, or is it just wrong?

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  Chihiro

  Hi @byrd9999 ! This の wouldn’t be a nominalizer but rather be a possessive marker as you mentioned.

  Depending on the context, we can interpret it as either ‘Those are Uncle Ben’s important words’ or ‘Those are dear Uncle Ben’s words’. That said, without additional context, the more common interpretation feels like the former, with the な-adjective 大切な modifying the noun phrase ベンおじさんの言葉. This is because 大切な言葉 is a more natural collocation than 大切なベンおじさん. If you want to say ‘dear Uncle Ben’, you would normally add 私の to 大切な to make it clear, like 私の大切なベンおじさん.

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  byrd9999

  Thanks for the reply