List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular rarely used kanji form な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- obedient, submissive, docile, meek, pliant
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の archaic
- peace, tranquility, tranquillity
- happy-go-lucky
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- abundant, ample, plentiful, affluent
- lustrous, glossy
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- tasteless, flavourless
- uninteresting, dull, dry, insipid
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- lack of understanding, lack of sympathy
popular obsolete reading noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic) archaic
- villainous, rascally, knavish
- independent, self-reliant
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- unreliable, uncertain, indefinite, unclear
popular JLPT N1 noun or participle taking the aux. verb する verb (generic) noun (generic) intransitive verb noun な adjective adjective (generic)
- to be stumped, to be at a loss, to be at one's wits' end, to be nonplussed
- to be fed up, to be tired (of), to be unable to bear, to be annoyed
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- omission, failure, incompleteness
- irregularity, mismanagement, misconduct, malpractice, carelessness, wastefulness, extravagance
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone adverb noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic)
- originally, from the start, from the beginning, from the outset, by nature
- none the worse (for), (coming out) even, in the same position (as before)