N5 grammar

〜な+名詞

Na-adjectives before a noun

Formation

A na-adjective needs な before the noun it describes: 静かな部屋. Standing alone at the end of a sentence it drops the な and takes です. The name of the category is the whole rule.

Examples

〜な+名詞 is marked in each sentence. Tap any word for its dictionary entry.

  1. Which brand do you prefer?

  2. Look at that good-looking boy.

  3. Cool fall is here.

  4. This yogurt tastes strange.

  5. Thank you for your kind hospitality.

The explanation is ours, written for this site. Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), each machine-checked to actually contain the pattern. Furigana is generated automatically, so a rare reading may be imperfect.