List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- rapid (e.g. progress)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- cash, ready money, money on hand, currency
- mercenary, self-interested, calculating
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) abbreviation
- fairness, openness, impartiality
- Komeito (Japanese political party)
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- favourable, favorable, promising, satisfactory, in good shape
popular JLPT N3 noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic) adverb
- least, lowest, minimum
- worst
- awful, horrible, nasty, disgusting
- at the very least
popular JLPT N4 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- regrettable, unfortunate, disappointing, vexing
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- serious, important, significant, grave, weighty
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) slang noun (prefix) な adjective adjective (generic) honorific language archaic
- god, deity, divinity, spirit, kami
- incredible, fantastic, amazing
- Emperor (of Japan)
- thunder
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective adverb
- corresponding to (in meaning, function, etc.), being equivalent to
- appropriate, suitable, befitting, proportionate
- to be proportionate to, to be in keeping with, to be deserving of, to be worthy of
- considerable, substantial
- considerably, rather, quite, fairly, pretty
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の
- diverse, varied