> ピンクのカメラの人はなぜ自分の飯を食ってしまったのか
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> ピンクのカメラが人はなぜ自分の飯を食ってしまったのか

Which particle should be used before 人, の or が ?

Please explain the answer
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grammar particles
What is the correct way to say "Why did the guy with pink camera eat my food?"
ピンクのカメラ **が** 人 is clearly ungrammatical, at least in modern Japanese. It must
be ピンクのカメラ **の** 人. It is parsed in an embedded structure like this.

> ［［ピンク **の** カメラ］ **の** 人］

The particle の is used to express various types of relationship, including but
not limited to possession. The first の is used to modify the thing referenced
(カメラ) with one of its attributes, namely color. The second refers to a
situation where the person referenced is holding a pink camera. It would
correspond to “with” in English.

It is important to note that の works within a noun phrase, whereas が plays a
particular function on the sentence (or clause) level.

By the way, 自分の飯 may be understood as referring to the food of the person
holding a pink camera, instead of the speaker’s ("my food").
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The other answer has already explained the が・の thing, so I'd like to clear up
some of the other issues with your translation.

> ピンクのカメラの人はなぜ自分の飯を食ってしまったのか

sounds a little off. More natural, I think, would be:

> ピンクのカメラの人はなぜ（私・僕・俺）のご飯を食べてしまったのかな

自分, as the other answerer said, could easily be taken to refer to 「ピンクのカメラの人」,
and 飯 and 食う can sound somewhat crude. A bare ～のか at the end of a sentence
containing a question word makes it seem like an incomplete sentence
containing an embedded question (like 「なぜ食べたのか、わからない」 'I don't know _why he
ate it_ ').
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