- original; unique; distinctive; characteristic; peculiar
- independent; one's own; personal
nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'; adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi); noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
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They'll be attacked if they carelessly express an original viewpoint, so they only report on the safe options.
They have formed their own nationwide association, the American Association of Retired Persons.
This is true partly because non-Westerners have begun to take pride in their own cultures and partly because those areas of the world where forks are not used have some of the highest birth rates.
The latter will continue to develop along their own paths according to the needs of their own speakers.
Soviet and Western observers have warned that if the Muslim republics do not join the commonwealth, they may from a separate group, setting up a volatile ethnic and religious split.
The tribe worships its ancestors and speaks its own language, and speaks an unfamiliar language.