course of Late Middle Japanese (see Late Middle Japanese adjectives), and now shii-adjectives are simply a form of i-adjectives. The distinction, although...

nouns, becoming naru adjectives in Modern Japanese (analogous to taru adjectives), rather than na adjectives as most nari adjectival nouns did. These include...

activities) nominal adjectives (names vary, also called na-adjectives or "adjectival nouns") verbs adjectives (so-called i-adjectives) More broadly, there...

out, to emit"). There are three types of adjectives (see Japanese adjectives): 形容詞 keiyōshi, or i adjectives, which have a conjugating ending i (い) (such...

closed class of adjectives, and new adjectives are not easily derived. Similarly, native Japanese adjectives (i-adjectives) are considered a closed class (as...

remaining static in all conjugations. Conjugable words (verbs, i‑adjectives, and na‑adjectives) are traditionally considered to have six possible conjugational...

sequence -ua- reducing to -a-: Many adjectival nouns of Early Middle Japanese were based on Old Japanese adjectives that were formed with suffixes -ka...

spelling, as described in the main article. Japanese adjectives can compound. This is quite common for na-adjectives, which function essentially as attributive...

up adjectival in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Adjectival may refer to: Anything related to or serving as an adjective Adjectival noun (Japanese) Adjectival...

is 〜くれ -kure, rather than the expected ×くれろ *kurero. Japanese adjectives, specifically i-adjectives, function grammatically as verbs, though with more limited...

Russian, Japanese and Chinese, prepositive adjectives are the norm (attributive adjectives normally come before the nouns they modify), and adjectives appear...

periphrastically. In Japanese, verbs and adjectives are closed classes, though these are quite large, with about 700 adjectives, and verbs have opened...

politeness as Japanese does. Demonstratives in Yilan Creole derive from Japanese. Adjectives and adverbs in Yilan Creole derive from both Japanese and Atayal...

inflect adjectives or verbs was first used by Korean scribes in the form of gugyeol, and later spread to Japan. When used to inflect an adjective or verb...

that Japanese adjectives are translated not to English adjectives, but to English predicates, as this is how they function grammatically in Japanese when...

be applied to only a handful of verbs or adjectives. In the examples below, the classified verb or adjective is placed in square brackets. * Unlike the...

important, and right. Adjectives head adjective phrases, and the most typical members function as modifiers in noun phrases. Most adjectives either inflect for...

food). Collateral adjectives contrast with derived (denominal) adjectives. For the noun father, for example, there is a derived adjective fatherly in addition...

Modern Japanese, partly a result of the merger of the conclusive and attributive forms. There were two types of adjectives: regular adjectives and adjectival...

("red") → rojo, roja, rojos, rojas Adjectives whose lemma does not end in -o, however, inflect differently. These adjectives almost always inflect only for...

s-irregular. There were two types of adjectives: regular adjectives and adjectival nouns. Historically, adjectives were subdivided into two classes: those...

first adjective to show coordination of adjectives. Below is a simple example of adjectival coordination in Japanese. In (3), both adjectives are i-adjectives...

Japanese particles, joshi (助詞) or tenioha (てにをは), are suffixes or short words in Japanese grammar that immediately follow the modified noun, verb, adjective...

exhaustive list of words. Japanese verb conjugation Honorific speech in Japanese Japanese adjectives Japanese particles Japanese grammar 五段活用 Banno, Eri;...

Adjectival noun may refer to: Adjectival noun (Japanese), also called adjectival or na-adjective Noun adjunct, a noun that qualifies another noun, like...

grammatically like ordinary adjectives, with no verb-like features) may be distinguished as deverbal adjectives. An example of a verbal adjective with verb-like features...

predicative adjectives.) That is, they take an ending that depends on the gender, case, and number of the noun phrase. German adjectives take different...

in Occupation Japan, by J. Marshall Unger. The 20th Century Japanese Writing System: Reform and Change by Christopher Seeley Japanese Hiragana Conversion...

Modal adjectives are adjectives, such as likely, probable and necessary, that express modality, i.e., possibility, necessity, or contingency. Modal adjectives...

from the Japanese te (手) (hand) and fuku (拭く), to wipe. In mah-jong parlors, the words atsushibo and tsumeshibo, from the Japanese adjectives atsui (熱い)...