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) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective
- urgency, emergency
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- health
- healthy, sound, fit, wholesome
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- international, worldwide, cross-border, cosmopolitan
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- chief, main, principal, major
popular ateji JLPT N4 な adjective adjective (generic) adverb noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- enough, sufficient, plenty, adequate, satisfactory
- sufficiently, fully, thoroughly, well, perfectly
- division into ten
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- serious, severe, grave, acute
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- formal, official, regular, proper, legal, due (formalities)
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- normal, regular
popular obsolete reading JLPT N5 な adjective adjective (generic)
- important, significant, serious, crucial
- precious, valuable, dear, cherished, beloved
- careful
popular JLPT N5 adverb な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) archaic
- very, greatly, terribly, awfully
- immense, enormous, great
- serious, grave, dreadful, terrible
- difficult, hard, challenging
- major incident, disaster