的【de】

的 also links a description to the noun it describes. Whatever modifies the noun goes in front of it, with 的 in between.

The modifier always precedes the noun, however long it gets. English can hang a description off the end of a noun; Chinese never does.

Short adjectives often drop 的

A one-syllable adjective in a common pairing fuses with the noun and needs no 的: 好人, 新书, 大城市, 小狗.

Add 很 and 的 comes back: 很好的人.

Two-syllable adjectives keep it

Noun modifying noun

的 links those too, and it means "of" rather than possession: 中国的历史, 明天的课.

Nationalities and materials fuse without 的: 中国人, 木头桌子.

The modifier can be a whole clause

The clause 昨天来 sits before the noun, exactly where an adjective would.