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)
- low (atmospheric) pressure, low-pressure system, depression, cyclone
- bad temper, foul mood, tense situation
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- typical, representative, archetypal, quintessential, stereotypical, model
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の archaic
- irony, sarcasm, cynicism, satire
- unexpected, different from what one expected, not as one had planned
- (only) surface, something superficial
- skin and bone, body
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- weird, eerie, ominous, creepy, uncanny, unearthly
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) mathematics
- impossible, incapable (of doing), unable (to do)
- incompetence, inability
- impotence
- having no solution (of an equation)
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- tranquil, calm, restful, peaceful, quiet
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective
- infinity, infinitude, eternity
- infinite, limitless
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) colloquial noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- spare time, free time, leisure
- time (it takes to do something), time required
- time off, leave, vacation, holiday
- dismissal, firing, severance, divorce
- free, not busy, unoccupied, idle
- slow (business), slack, dull
- to be free, to be not busy, to be available, to be doing nothing
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective
- small quantity, small amount
- narrowmindedness
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic) noun (suffix) noun (generic) archaic noun
- better, preferable, less objectionable, least-worst
- more, increase, extra
- increase, growth