List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic)
- large (amount of money), huge, hefty, expensive
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- colourful, colorful, multicoloured, multicolored, varicoloured, varicolored
- various, varied, variegated, diverse, a variety of, all kinds of
popular JLPT N2 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- easy, simple
- easygoing, lighthearted, simplistic, irresponsible, careless, quick (to do)
popular JLPT N4 な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- a long time (since the last time), first in a long time
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- strong, intense, severe
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective computing
- blank space (in a document)
- blank, void, gap, vacuum
- whitespace
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- justice, fairness, impartiality
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic)
- fresh
popular obsolete reading JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective adverb Buddhism
- truth, reality
- truly, really
- absolute truth
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) adverb
- honest, frank, candid, straightforward
- honestly, frankly