I came across this sentence, and I'm a little confused about the particles, specifically the の.
弟はへやのそうじをしました。
Could someone please explain why の is used where it is here? I guess it shows that the room is the brother's, but I'm not really sure how that works - I thought that を would've been used since the room is being acted on. Any explanation would be appreciated, thank you! :)
掃除 is also a noun (cleaning, lets say), that can become a suru verb (literally it could mean something like “to do the cleaning”, so, to clean). の connects two nouns. 部屋の掃除 would be “the cleaning of a/the room”. は marks, in this case, who does the action: that is 弟, the younger brother. Together it would mean “my younger brother did the cleaning of the room/ aka my younger brother cleaned the room”
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掃除 is also a noun (cleaning, lets say), that can become a suru verb (literally it could mean something like “to do the cleaning”, so, to clean). の connects two nouns. 部屋の掃除 would be “the cleaning of a/the room”. は marks, in this case, who does the action: that is 弟, the younger brother. Together it would mean “my younger brother did the cleaning of the room/ aka my younger brother cleaned the room”
Also, if you ever have any questions on grammar or words of a sentence inside renshuu (whether in grammar list practice or on example sentences for words) you can click the yellow bubble icon and ask a question on the sentence directly! Hope this helped and gl
