Structure
[な]Adjective + だ
[な]Adjective + な + Noun
Details
Part of Speech
Noun
Word Type
Adjectival Noun
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Standard
品詞
名詞
単語の種類
形容動詞
使用域
一般
About な-Adjectives
- 魚は大好きだ。I love fish. (Fish are loved by me)
- 大好きな野菜です。A vegetable that I love.
な-Adjectives are mostly words of foreign (Chinese/English) origin. This is why they have evolved to require unique conjugation rules.
- とても綺麗。Very pretty. (Natural in Japanese)
- とても外。Very outside. (Unnatural in Japanese)
Synonyms
Examples
綺麗な絵。
A pretty painting.
綺麗な女の人。
A pretty woman.
暇な一日。
A free day.
静かな部屋。
A quiet room.
あれは綺麗です。
That over there is beautiful.
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List of N5 なAdjectives
NihongoIchiban
The na-adjective
Tae Kim
い and な Adjectives
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Genki I 2nd Edition
Page 133
みんなの日本語 I
Page 56 [CH 8]
[DBJG] A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
Page 7
Genki I
Page 101
Tae Kim's Japanese Grammar Guide
Page 38
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な-Adjectives – Grammar Discussion
Most Recent Replies (11 in total)
gyroninja
About 2 years ago
Andulien’s perspective of there always being a な is a nonstandard way of analyzing things. You could similarly say there is always a だ after な adjectives except in cases where there isn’t and that would be just as valid as his view.
The standard way to look at it is that you just have the な adjective and then you add stuff based off how you use it.
Superpnut
About 2 years ago
But he didn’t say there is always a な except when there isn’t…
All he said is that there isn’t a な when the adjective is next to a verb.
And I was showing appreciation because I was trying to figure out why there wasn’t a な
Anyways it doesn’t matter I have some more basic grammar points to struggle to understandgyroninja
About 2 years ago
If you read his posts you can see he used words like “left off” and “omit.” And in the way he compares な adjectives to い adjectives, he makes me think that he believed that な adjectives have a な at the end of them.
As mentioned earlier in the thread if you want to use a な adjective on a verb you need to use に after the な adjective instead of な.
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