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I've been struggling with the possessive and the statement of existence in the
following phrase:

> 私は今までの私ではない

The easy part is "I am until now"...but then I get stuck on 「の私ではない」. By
itself, I understand「ではない」to mean "am not," but then「の私」throws me: "of me"?

How off-base is the following interpretation?

> I haven't been myself until now
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translation verbs possession
Having trouble parsing out 「私は今までの私ではない」
## Parse

**私は** - I

**今までの私** - The person I used to be (until now/just recently)

**ではない** - am not

## **Roughly translated**

> I am not the person I used to be.

## Side note

For parsing sentences, a useful tool is putting a comma after particles like は
and seeing how the ideas organize out.
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I think `の` here is a nominalizer, converting `今まで` (until now) into a noun
phrase which then modifies the second `私`, resulting in `今までの私` ("me until
now", i.e. "the person I used to be").

Combining it with the first `私は` and last `ではない`, we get:

> I'm not the person I used to be.
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