List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の
- nearsightedness, shortsightedness, myopia
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- admirable, commendable, praiseworthy, laudable, brave, heroic, noble, courageous
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb な adjective adjective (generic)
- modesty, humility, being humble
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- alternate, alternation
popular な adjective adjective (generic) philosophy
- acquired (e.g. characteristic), learned (e.g. behaviour)
- a posteriori
popular search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- meddling, meddlesomeness, nosiness, interference, officiousness
- meddler, buttinsky, busybody
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) adverb
- irresponsible, perfunctory, careless
- lukewarm, half-baked, halfhearted, vague
- (already) enough
- considerably, quite, rather, pretty
popular JLPT N5 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- liking, being fond of, to one's liking, to one's taste, preferred, favourite
- liking (romantically), being in love with, beloved
- faddism, eccentricity
- as one likes, as it suits one
- lecherous, lustful, salacious
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- desperation, despair, self-abandonment
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- sociable