List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular search-only kana form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) go (game) interjection
- no good, not serving its purpose, useless, broken
- hopeless, wasted, in vain, purposeless
- cannot, must not, not allowed
- neutral point, intersection owned by neither player at the end of a game
- no!, stop!
popular JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic) adverb noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の
- mostly, ordinarily, usually, generally
- probably
- most, almost all
- ordinary
- proper, appropriate, moderate
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- weak (constitution), sickly, feeble, in poor health
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- poor, meagre, meager, feeble, scanty, shabby, insubstantial
popular noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic) adverb
- constant, persistent, unremitting, ceaseless
- indecisiveness
- usual, normal, everyday, habitual, ordinary
popular obsolete kanji search-only kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- extramarital sex, affair, fooling around
- infidelity, wantonness, unfaithfulness, inconstancy, fickleness, caprice
popular rarely used kanji form な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- easy, simple, ready
- casual, off-hand, easy-going, careless, artless
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- gentle, mild-mannered
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- excess, surplus, superabundance
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- odd, strange, queer, peculiar