Japanese Adjectives

Submitted by admin on Fri, 07/25/2008 - 16:41

Learn about Adjectives in Japanese

Adjectives in Japanese are different from their English counterparts. They do strange things like change with tenses & moods...
Adjectives are split into 2 groups. -i adjectives and -na adjectives.
We will look at the two groups closely, but don't feel you have to learn everything at once. Give it some time to sink in.

Examples of -i Adjectives:
Notice they all end in -i
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akai - red
omoshiroi - interesting
hayai - fast
nagai - long

Examples of -na Adjectives:
These may or may not end in -i but when used before nouns -na is added
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kirei - pretty, beautiful

kirei na onna - pretty woman
shizuka - quiet

shizuka na yoru - quiet night
rippa - great, splendid

rippa na boushi - great hat

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