Where to put the possessive pronoun in a sentence?


If I want to talk about a friend of mine who studies psychology, can I say
following?

> 心理学を専攻している私の友達。

It sounds like I'm the one studying shinrigaku. Then I could say

> 私の心理学を専攻している友達。

But it sounds that I'm talking about "my psychology", even if I now it doesn't
make sense. So how could I translate the following nominal group ?

> My friend who studies psychology.




Although technically ambiguous, you can safely say 心理学を専攻している私の友達 without
being misunderstood. Introducing a friend of yours after describing your own
major doesn't make much sense, so people normally take this as "my friend who
studies psychology."

私の心理学を専攻している友達 is acceptable but a little puzzling.

Related: [Are Japanese modifiers "greedy", "anti-greedy", or do they mean
whatever people choose them to
mean?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/46817/5010)




Although technically ambiguous, you can safely say 心理学を専攻している私の友達 without
being misunderstood. Introducing a friend of yours after describing your own
major doesn't make much sense, so people normally take this as "my friend who
studies psychology."

私の心理学を専攻している友達 is acceptable but a little puzzling.

Related: [Are Japanese modifiers "greedy", "anti-greedy", or do they mean
whatever people choose them to
mean?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/46817/5010)

