How to use adjectives in Japanese

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Japanese adjectives

Adjectives are generally used to describe nouns. Adjectives come before the noun in Japanese just like in English.

Examples

omoi yuki

the heavy snow

yawarakai yuki

the soft snow

tumetai yuki

the cold snow

široi yuki

the white snow

nureta yuki

the wet snow

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Adjectives are used to describe nouns. To get started, we suggest you learn the three Japanese adjectives oki na, čiisa na and furui (big, small, old). Using the nouns šomotsu, isu and doa (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use each adjective with each noun (the big book, the old chair, the small door). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Japanese adjectives including useful examples. After you've learned to use the adjectives oki na, čiisa na and furui with the nouns šomotsu, isu and doa you can move on to Step 8 (Japanese Verbs).

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