A lot of the vocab in WaniKani are listed as both a noun/adjective, and since nouns and adjectives are (obviously) treated differently in Japanese, how do I treat these vocab? Nouns? Adjectives? Both?
Ty
A lot of the vocab in WaniKani are listed as both a noun/adjective, and since nouns and adjectives are (obviously) treated differently in Japanese, how do I treat these vocab? Nouns? Adjectives? Both?
Ty
The so-called な adjectives are adjectival nouns. Nouns that become adjectives when they are followed by な. Without な, they function as normal nouns.
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/adjectives#The_na-adjective
Pretty much what Omun said, but maybe this helps too.
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