> あなたのもの

I'm trying to translate the phrase "I'm yours" in a loving way. Or just
"yours" as in I belong to you and vice versa.

I know a bit of Japanese but I'm a bit confused here. I know "anata no" is
something belonging to "you". The "mo no" part is what confuses me.

Am I saying "your thing"?
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Translating "I'm yours"; does あなたのもの work?
私はあなたの物です。

You can also use "もの" but the kanji helps to keep things cleaner. As you have
it in the original question, it just reads "your stuff."

もの does literally mean "thing/stuff," etc., but it's used in various
situations. Like most Japanese words, context and sentence structure are
important.

For example, you can say: おいしいものが食べたい。 Eng: "I want to eat something tasty."
Then there's 食べ物 which _is_ the word "food," yet breaking it down you have
"edible things."

It seems you might have read the original phrase as having two particles, "mo"
and "no," where it's just a single word ("mono" in Romaji).
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Yes, (私は)あなたのもの is a common phrase, and it is used [more than a hundred
times](http://www.uta-
net.com/user/index_search/search2.html?frm=ichiran&textfield=%82%A0%82%C8%82%BD%82%CC%82%E0%82%CC)
in lyrics. You can also use other first- and second-person pronouns, for
example 僕は君のもの. Of course this can be one of the heaviest expressions to show
your love, but that's up to you.

And it's best to leave it in hiragana, just as the OP suggested. The [BCCWJ
corpus](http://www.kotonoha.gr.jp/shonagon/) returns 57 results for あなたのもの and
no result for あなたの者.

物【もの】 usually refers to inanimate things. 私はあなたの物 is not entirely wrong, but
it may look similar to "I'm your gadget" or something. It's possible to say
私は[あなたの物じゃない](http://www.uta-net.com/song/124065/)のよ in an angry tone, though.

者【もの】 at least refers to a person, but 私はあなたの者 looks even weirder to me in
this situation. A Google search for あなたの者 primarily returns several results
from Christian Bibles (which are full of uncommon and archaic expressions),
and they're basically used in the sense of "your follower/believer".
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