Phase 2 · 7 min

Adjectives

い-adjectives and な-adjectives

Two families. い-adjectives end in い and conjugate themselves. な-adjectives behave like nouns and need な before a noun and です after.

速いです / 速くないです / 速かったですhayaidesu / hayakunaidesu / hayakattadesu
便利です / 便利じゃないです / 便利でしたbenridesu / benrijanaidesu / benrideshita

kono moderu wa hayai desu

This model is fast.

benri na tsūru desune

It's a convenient tool, isn't it.

な links a な-adjective to a noun. ね asks for agreement.

seido wa takakunai desu

The accuracy is not high.

いい (good) is irregular: negative is よくない, past is よかった.
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From Urdu

い-adjectives conjugate for tense like Urdu verbs, not like Urdu adjectives: 速かった = 'was fast' with tense inside the adjective. な-adjectives behave like Urdu adjectives from Persian/Arabic (خوبصورت): they need a copula to change tense.

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hayai

fast (い-adj)

takai

high / expensive

benri

convenient (な-adj)

kantan

simple / easy (な-adj)

yokunai

not good (irregular いい)

〜kunaidesu

い-adj negative

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