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"I am his younger sister."
Translation:私は彼の妹です。
June 17, 2017
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の is a linking particle used to modify a noun with another noun. Moving its placement changes what it is being linked to.
AのB - "The B of A" or "A's B"
彼の妹 - "His younger sister", "The younger sister of him"
彼の私 would mean "His me" or "The me of him" and doesn't make sense.
彼の私は妹です "On the topic of his me - a younger sister"
私は彼の妹です "On the topic of me - his younger sister"
The subject here isn't the brother; it is the speaker "I/me" that is being described as having the quality of "being his younger sister"
ProfD23
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Every once in a while they trick you by having the Japanese and English words in basically the same order. How evil.