List: pre-noun adjectival (rentaishi)
Adjectives occurring before nouns and not in a predicative position.
pre-noun adjectival adjective (generic)
- superb, outstanding
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone pre-noun adjectival adjective (generic)
- this
- last (couple of years, etc.), these, past, this
- you (as in "you liar")
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone pre-noun adjectival adjective (generic)
- all, every
obsolete kanji JLPT N1 pre-noun adjectival adjective (generic)
- main, principal, important
JLPT N1 pre-noun adjectival adjective (generic) godan verb godan verb (archaic) intransitive verb
- next (e.g. "next April"), forthcoming, coming
- to come, to arrive, to be due to
pre-noun adjectival adjective (generic)
- extraordinary, uncommon
pre-noun adjectival adjective (generic)
- the ... after next, two ... later, two ... after
popular ateji rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone pre-noun adjectival adjective (generic)
- satisfactory, decent, good, proper, respectable
popular usually written using kana alone pre-noun adjectival adjective (generic)
- funny, amusing, comical, laughable, ridiculous
- strange, odd, funny, peculiar, weird, wrong, unusual, eccentric
- wrong, unsuitable, improper, inappropriate, unbecoming
- suspicious
pre-noun adjectival adjective (generic)
- a size smaller