List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- precious, valuable
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- huge, gigantic, enormous
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- powerful, strong
popular JLPT N2 な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- high-class, high-grade, high-quality, high-end, luxury
- high-ranking, high-level, senior
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- bone
- frame
- outline, core
- backbone, spirit, fortitude
- laborious, troublesome, difficult
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) euphemistic
- difficulty, hardship, trouble, distress
- infeasibility, inability (to carry out)
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- flexible, lithe, soft, pliable
- calisthenics
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- favourable, favorable, doing well, OK, all right
popular search-only kanji form historical term noun noun (generic) colloquial な adjective adjective (generic)
- Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7)
- reminiscent of the Shōwa era, Shōwa-nostalgic, old-fashioned, quaint, old-school
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb な adjective adjective (generic) dated term
- worry, concern, anxiety, uneasiness, fear
- care, help, aid, assistance