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)
- cold, chilly, cool
- cold (attitude, stare, etc.), frigid, indifferent, distant, surly, curt
- composed, cool, calm
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- illegal, unlawful
popular noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic)
- atomic, indivisibility
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- opposite, reverse, contrary
- front and back, parallel to, back to back, adjacent to, inseparable from, inside and out
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- fluid, unsettled
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun (suffix) archaic
- one line, one stretch (e.g. of road), one strand (e.g. of hair), one beam (e.g. of light), one ray, one length (e.g. of rope)
- earnest, resolute, intent, devoted, single-minded
- one bloodline, one clan
- ordinary, common
popular noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic) mathematics
- unsettled, uncertain, indefinite, unfixed, variable, irregular, changeable
- indeterminate
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- comparatively high, fairly expensive
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- economical, comparatively cheap
popular ateji rarely used kanji form な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- single-minded, intent, determined, wholehearted, earnest, devoted (to)