List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- muscular
- lean (of a company's operations, etc.)
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- impure, adulterated, foul, mixed, dishonest
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- unsuited, inappropriate, improper, undeserved
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- extra, excess, surplus
popular ateji JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- joke, pun, jest, witticism, wordplay
- smartly dressed, stylish, fashion-conscious, refined
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する
- luxury, extravagance
- to live in luxury, to indulge oneself
- lavish (use of something), abundant, copious, wasteful
- excessive (e.g. demands, expectations)
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adverb adverb taking the と particle noun noun (generic)
- various, a variety of, all sorts of, many (different)
- variously, in various ways, in many ways
- various things, this and that
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- manly
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- hard (on the ears), offensive (to the ear), rasping, rough, harsh, grating, jarring, cacophonous
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する な adjective adjective (generic) male term interjection
- rudeness, impoliteness, disrespect, impertinence
- leaving, going (on one's way), saying goodbye
- taking without permission, stealing, pinching, pilfering
- my apologies, I must be going now, so long