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Noun+なの, when の is the indefinite pronoun?
According to Samuel Martin as explained in his “A reference grammar of Japanese language” the Japanese particle (の) is the conflation of different particles which stems from different etyma.
He lists ...
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Noun+なの, when の is the indefinite pronoun?
That is to say, can you say Ａなの to mean "the one that's A"?
Yes. Just as 安いの means "cheap ones", 安価なの means "cheap ones", too. In this case, の is not a nominalizer but a ...
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Noun+なの, when の is the indefinite pronoun?
To add to @dvx2718's answer which is correct is that the key to your misunderstanding seems to be not realizing that there are two “〜の”. One is a genitive marker, comparable to “of” in English, the ...
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Noun+なの, when の is the indefinite pronoun?
First, な is the way to connect relative clauses to nouns, and NOT reserved specifically for の. In English, you use the word that to connect nouns to relative clauses, such as the man that likes ...
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