#2 Let's study Japanese Adjective!

Hello everyone!

こんにちは！

You're able to read it, aren't you?

If you need to learn Japanese letters please read my previous post Let's learn Japanese letter!.

In this lesson, I'm going to teach you how to attach an adjective to a noun in Japanese.

It's not too difficult to understand I guess. Because It's similar to English.

Let me give you an example first.

This is a beautiful flower.

これはきれいな花(はな)です。

In this case, 'きれいな' is an adjective and attached to a noun '花'.

See?

Just put an adjective before a noun as you do in English.

Sounds easy, doesn't it?

Phew, we did a lot today, right?

Not really?

Am I missing something...?

Oh, I got to say this. sorry guys.

In Japanese, there're 2 types of adjectives 'i-adjective' and 'na-adjective'.

That's a little bit complicated.

I'm going to give you some useful adjectives first.

きれい[adj] beautiful

静か(しずか)[adj] silent, quiet

可愛い(かわいい)[adj] pretty, cute, sweet, lovely

良い(よい/いい)[adj] good, cool,

かっこいい[adj] cool, handsome

高い(たかい)[adj] high, tall, expensive

低い(ひくい)[adj] low, short

きれい, 静か, these two are called na-adjective.

When they're connected to a noun they're connected with な.

That's why they're called na-adjective.

However When they're connected to です at the end of sentence they connect to them without な.

For example,

He is a quiet person. かれは、静かな人です。 (It connects to 人 with な)

He is quiet. かれは、静かです。　(It connects to です without な)

A beautiful flower. きれいな花。　(Even if there is no subject it connects to a noun with な)

(It's) beautiful. きれいです。　(na-adjective connects to です without な)

We're almost there. :)

How about i-adjective?

It connects to a noun and です directly.

Finish! Well done!

It's easy enough, isn't it?

Ok, guys

Thank you for....hm?

Do you want to practice using adjectives??

Hm, you really want to learn Japanese, don't you? :)

Fill in the blanks these sentences below.

1.Climb up a low mountain. （　　　　）山にのぼる。

2.Here is quiet. ここは（　　　　）です。

3.She has a pretty dog. かのじょは（　　　）犬をかっています。

4.This car is expensive. この車は( )です。

5.He is a quiet person. かれは（　　　　）人だ。

Answer,

1.（　高い　）山にのぼる。

2.ここは（　静か　）です。

3.かのじょは（　かわいい　）犬をかっています。

4.この車は（　高い　）です。

5.かれは（　静かな　）人だ。

How was your answer?

Next lesson is going to be about negative sentence and past tense.

So please revise today's lesson. :)

In these lessons, I use only basic Kanji which I post in my blog.

Please check them meanwhile. I post Kanji course too. :)

I'll call it a day.

Thank you!

I hope my lesson helps you a lot.

ありがとうございました！