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When looking up words recently I noticed some are listed as n0-adjectives. I’ve learnt about i-adjectives & na-adjectives. no-adjectives – what’s that all about?
Aye, my new textbook talks about の-adjectives also. Near as I can tell, they’re just nouns, but ones that are used to modify other nouns more often than not. Like 普通 (usual), for example.
They seem to be halfway towards being na-adjectives, in light novels I’ve come across a few with a ‘na’ rather than a ’no’. In the cases of ‘no’, has anyone paid attention to how they are conjugated, or modified into adverbs (if at all)?
Did some more googling. Most sites – including Tae Kim and Wikipedia – don’t mention の-adjectives at all. Of the sites that do, pretty much all of them admit that they’re just nouns. One site mentions they’re functionally the same as な-adjectives (which are often call adjectival nouns anyway) except that they use の instead of な – it also uses the example of みどり, which I’ve always been taught is a noun.
My textbook doesn’t discuss them in any detail – it is, after all, an upper-intermediate-to-lower-advanced-level textbook, so that sort of grammar is probably assumed.
Soo… I’ma stick with my first comment: they’re just nouns. =)
はやく！みどりじゃないワイアを切れ！
Thanks to you all!
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