List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular obsolete reading JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) interjection
- pity, sorrow, grief, misery, compassion, pathos
- pitiable, pitiful, pathetic, miserable
- alack, alas
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- bizarre, strange, weird, mysterious
- grotesque
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- pure heart, naivete, innocence
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic)
- clean, clear
- pure, honest, clean, innocent, platonic, chaste
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の
- right angle
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- stale, hackneyed, cliched
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic) adverb
- suitable, appropriate, fitting, proper
- appropriately, accordingly, as required, at one's discretion
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- absorbed in, immersed in, crazy about, obsessed with, devoted to
- forgetting oneself, daze, trance, ecstasy, delirium
- within a dream, while dreaming
popular noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) な adjective
- negative (result)
- gloomy, negative (e.g. attitude), pessimistic
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- peace, quiet, tranquility, tranquillity