Which one is correct 会社名前 or 会社の名前?


I'm a beginner in Japanese language. In English, "Company Name" and "Name of
Company" are basically the same. In Japanese, are those two the same or
different? Which one should I use?

  * 会社名前 
  * 会社の名前




会社の名前{なまえ} consists of two nouns, one describing the other. The one with の is
in genitive case which is used to indicate possession in this case. It's
roughly equivalent to _'s_ or _of_ in English: _company's name_ or _the name
of the company_ (both are translated to 会社の名前). Note that 名前 is a native
Japanese word and it uses kun-yomi reading of the kanji in this case.

As it happens often in Japanese, there's also a Sino-Japanese word with the
same meaning which uses on-yomi readings only. For company name it is
会社名{かいしゃめい} or 社名{しゃめい} (not 会社名前). As a rough rule, those kind of words are
usually more formal then equivalent native Japanese words.

Please also note that Japanese and English grammar don't work in the same way
and order of words in both language is often different and has a different
significance. You cannot really directly translate word by word.

