How to say "This (object) of (possessor)" in Japanese?


I'm not fully sure the linguistic terms yet, I believe it's a noun phrase. Is
there a way to form such expressions in Japanese with a single noun phrase?

  * This heart of mine
  * That son of yours
  * These cats of hers
  * Those trash of his

I tried Google Translate and it produced something like「私のこの心」, and that
looked weird to me. Is it possible, and if not what's the closest
alternatives?




> 私のこの心

Yes, that's it.

Why it makes you feel strange is perhaps because you speak English. Please
take a look at [the
post](https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/85/does-japanese-have-
determiners) @sbkgs4686 has cited for details, but the point is that English
(as well as many West European languages) has a word class _determiner_ that
you can use only once in each phrase. "That", "the", "a", "any", "my", "their"
are its typical members so that you can't use any two or more of them at the
same time. As a result, you are forced to make ones like "a friend of mine" or
"these cats of hers" instead of something like "*a my friend" or "*these her
cats".

Japanese is free from all such things, so you just put:

> あなたのその息子 "your that son": _that son of yours_  
>  彼女のこの猫たち "her these cats": _these cats of hers_

For "those trash of his" I can think of multiple situations which I don't
think literal translation works very well anyways. What also should be noted
is that the default position of この／その／あの is after possessive, before ordinary
adjectives if any: 私のこのかわいい猫たち.

Oh, by the way, pronouns are just nouns in Japanese, that means:

> 美しい日本の私 *beautiful Japan's me → ["Japan, the Beautiful, and
> Myself"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasunari_Kawabata#Nobel_Prize)




> 私のこの心

Yes, that's it.

Why it makes you feel strange is perhaps because you speak English. Please
take a look at [the
post](https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/85/does-japanese-have-
determiners) @sbkgs4686 has cited for details, but the point is that English
(as well as many West European languages) has a word class _determiner_ that
you can use only once in each phrase. "That", "the", "a", "any", "my", "their"
are its typical members so that you can't use any two or more of them at the
same time. As a result, you are forced to make ones like "a friend of mine" or
"these cats of hers" instead of something like "*a my friend" or "*these her
cats".

Japanese is free from all such things, so you just put:

> あなたのその息子 "your that son": _that son of yours_  
>  彼女のこの猫たち "her these cats": _these cats of hers_

For "those trash of his" I can think of multiple situations which I don't
think literal translation works very well anyways. What also should be noted
is that the default position of この／その／あの is after possessive, before ordinary
adjectives if any: 私のこのかわいい猫たち.

Oh, by the way, pronouns are just nouns in Japanese, that means:

> 美しい日本の私 *beautiful Japan's me → ["Japan, the Beautiful, and
> Myself"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasunari_Kawabata#Nobel_Prize)

