a possessive particle - a grammatical particle used to indicate possession. For example, in Japanese, "my" or "mine" can be expressed as watashi no, where watashi means "I" and no is the possessive particle. Similarly in Mandarin Chinese, "my" or "mine" is wo de, where wo means "I" and de is the possessive particle.

An alternative to the pronominal possessive determiner, found in some languages, including