On Kana-Boon's スノーグローブ (Snow Globe) song, there are two versions of the same sentence:
君が好きな白い雪になろう
君の好きな白い雪になろう
What is the difference between these two sentences? Does の have a possession meaning, like "Your white snow that you like"?
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7Does this answer your question? How does the の work in 「日本人の知らない日本語」? – istrasci May 27 '21 at 12:47
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They both mean the same:
I will be the white snow that you like.
There is not much difference here. In a clause that modifies a noun, the subject marker が is often changed to の, especially when it is near the noun.
However, since the predicate is 好き in this case, the first sentence with が could have a second meaning:
I will be the white snow that likes you.
In this interpretation, 君 would be the object of the verb "to like" in English. (好き is an adjective in Japanese.)
Maybe this was intended.
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+1 for pointing out something I hadn't considered to feel in the first sentence, the notion that "you" is the object of affection, not merely the snow. That made my day brighten just to imagine. Beautiful words. – A.Ellett May 27 '21 at 17:49