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 noun (generic)
- ardent, passionate, vehement
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- inevitable, necessary
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- inevitable, inescapable, unavoidable
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- displeasure, discomfort, unpleasantness
- indisposition, ailment
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の expression
- defect, deficiency, imperfection, inadequacy, lack
- Yours in haste
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の psychoanalysis
- unconsciousness
- unconscious, involuntary, automatic, mechanical, unintentional, spontaneous
- the unconscious
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) Buddhism
- cruel, merciless, atrocious, ruthless, cold-blooded
- pitiful, tragic, horrible, miserable
- breaking a precept without shame
popular JLPT N1 noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective adverb noun noun (generic)
- various, a variety of, all kinds of, many, diverse
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- light (of movements), nimble, sprightly, springy
- light-hearted, cheerful, buoyant, jaunty, casual (e.g. clothing), rhythmical (e.g. melody)
- taking a turn for the better (of an illness), receding of symptoms, recovery, convalescence
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic) stock market
- timid, weak-kneed, fainthearted
- bearish