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)
- essential, substantial, substantive, intrinsic
popular noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic)
- somewhat larger (amount), quite a lot, a little more (than usual), a little extra
popular colloquial suffix な adjective adjective (generic)
- -like, sort of, similar to, resembling
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- beautifully white (esp. of skin)
- whitening (of skin, teeth, etc.)
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- self-willed, (doing or saying things) to suit one's own convenience, oblivious to the convenience of others
popular prefix な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) suffix abbreviation noun (suffix)
- large, big, great, huge, vast, major, important, serious, severe
- great, prominent, eminent, distinguished
- -sized, as big as, the size of
- university
- large (e.g. serving size), large option
- long month (i.e. having 31 days)
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- in perfect form, going swimmingly
popular food, cooking noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- minced meat or fish that is seasoned and fried (usu. served on top of rice)
- tattered, ragged, tangled
- fine, small
popular usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic)
- that kind of, of the sort, of the kind, such
popular irregular reading な adjective adjective (generic) interjection
- wonderful