List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular JLPT N2 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- malicious, ill-tempered, unkind, mean, nasty
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- optimistic
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の
- high humidity
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- sweet (taste), luscious
- sweet (melody, dream, etc.), delightful, pleasant, mellow, mellifluous
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- homogeneous, homogeneity
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- pluralistic, plural
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun (suffix)
- tone deafness, amusia, having no ear for music
- having no sense of (e.g. direction), being hopeless when it comes to (e.g. computers), -illiterate
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- improper, inappropriate, unjust, unfair, unreasonable
popular search-only kanji form な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- selfish, self-centred, egotistical
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- timid, fainthearted