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[chinese] neat grammar shit: 的
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的 is ostensibly the possessive particle
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i.e. "X的Y" = "Y of X"
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but the neat part is what it does if you don't put Y after it
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and it becomes, like, an abstract nounifier that can take words of any part of speech and turn them into nouns
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in strange ways
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Example 1: 那平可乐是我的
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[that][bottle][cola][is][me]的
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"that bottle of cola is mine"
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attaching 的 to a pronoun
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Example 2: Attaching it to an adjective
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我不喜欢喝苦的
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[me][not][like] 
[bitter]的
[bitter]的
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oh come on
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me-not-like-drink-bitter-的
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"I don't like to drink bitter things/drinks"
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Example 3: Attaching it to a verb
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你有吃的吗
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you-have-drink-的-?
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"Do you have something to drink?"
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very flexible, I'm intrigued