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)
- steady, honest, sober, straightforward, reliable
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- clear, clear-cut, lucid, unequivocal, explicit
popular noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic)
- unexpected, unforeseen, strange
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- optimistic, hopeful
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb intransitive verb な adjective adjective (generic)
- dryness, aridity, drying (e.g. clothes), dehydration, desiccation
- insipidity
popular obsolete reading JLPT N5 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- skillful, skilled, proficient, good (at), adept, clever
- flattery
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- clean, hygienic, sanitary
- pure, virtuous, immaculate
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- precise, exact, detailed, accurate, minute, close
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- earnest, sincere, acute, keen, fervent
- pressing, urgent, serious, severe
- pertinent, appropriate
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- great (quantity, amount, etc.), huge, enormous, serious