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)
- nationwide, countrywide, national, throughout the country
popular JLPT N2 な adjective adjective (generic)
- rough (estimate, summary, etc.), broad, general, sweeping, loose
- careless (e.g. work), sloppy, crude
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の
- large drop (of rain, sweat, tears, etc.), large grain-like object (e.g. grape, cherry)
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- unsuitable, inappropriate, improper
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- physical
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone interjection colloquial noun noun (generic) prefix な adjective adjective (generic) slang adverb
- damn, damn it, shit, crap
- feces, excrement, dung
- damn, damned, blasted, stupid
- very, extremely, really
- terrible, awful, shit, crap
- a lot
- negligible, insignificant, not mattering at all, counting for nothing, hardly worth consideration, out of the question
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- charming, fascinating, attractive
popular usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic)
- probable, likely
popular search-only kana form usually written using kana alone noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic)
- piping hot, scalding
- madly in love, passionately in love
popular ateji JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- poor, pitiable, pathetic, pitiful