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)
- negligence, carelessness, incompetence, mismanagement
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の
- honest, respectable, decent
- respectable occupation (i.e. not yakuza, prostitute, etc.)
- person in a respectable occupation
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- quiet, still, calm
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- unjust, inhuman
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- practical, realistic, pragmatic
popular rarely used kanji form な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- wicked, evil, profligate, immoral
- wastrel, scoundrel, villain
- organized crime, yakuza, underworld
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) philosophy
- inborn, innate, inherent, congenital, hereditary
- a priori
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- incomprehensible, mysterious, inexplicable, inscrutable, enigmatic, baffling
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- clear, plain, distinct, obvious, evident, articulate
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic) adverb
- far away, far off, far, distant, in the distance
- long ago, long before