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I'm confused about the phrase "Ai suru hito" being translated as "beloved
ones" in the phrase

"Ooshiku tatta wakamono wa Ai suru hito o kabaitsutsu "

As far as I understand, aisuru is translated as "to love". But here it is used
as an adjective. Is it rightly translated? and if so, is it common for verbs
to used like adjectives by placing them before a noun?
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is "Ai suru hito" rightly translated as "beloved persons"?
愛する人 technically means either "the person one loves" (=one's beloved person)
or "the person who loves someone", depending on the context. In this context
it's the former because "protecting the person he loves" makes sense here but
"protecting the person who loves someone" does not.

It is very common for verbs to be used like adjectives, and that's called
**relative clauses**. Unlike English, Japanese relative clauses modifies
something that follows. If you don't know Japanese relative clauses, please
[read this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/14550/5010).

> 若者が 人を 愛する (a youth loves a person)  
>  ［若者が ＿＿ 愛する］ 人 (a person whom a youth loves)

Recently I introduced [this
post](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/1016/5010) to you. Once you
understand Japanese relative clauses, it should be more clear why some people
say Japanese i-adjectives are grammatically more like verbs, and, in this
case, why a normal verb looked like an adjective to you.
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