List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular JLPT N2 な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- horizontal, level, even
popular search-only kana form ateji rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic)
- lovely, wonderful, nice, great, splendid, marvellous, fantastic, superb
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) mathematics
- monotony, monotone, dullness
- monotone, monotonic
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- abstract
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- unnecessary, needless
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N4 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) music noun (prefix)
- strange, odd, peculiar, weird, curious, eccentric, funny, suspicious, fishy
- unexpected
- change
- incident, disturbance, disaster, accident, emergency
- flat
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- unrelated
popular ateji JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- futility, waste, uselessness, pointlessness, idleness
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- safe (e.g. choice), secure, innocuous, inoffensive
- acceptable, passable, satisfactory, adequate, faultless, without flaw
popular JLPT N5 な adjective adjective (generic)
- healthy, robust, strong, solid, durable