形 容 動 詞(けいようどうし)

けいようどうし

noun

na-adjective (grammar term)

1. na-adjective; adjectival noun (grammar term)

The school-grammar term for words like 静(しず)か and きれい, which take な before a noun and だ at the end of a sentence.

「静(しず)か」は形容動詞(けいようどうし)だ。

静か is a na-adjective.

Na-adjectives take the な form before a noun.

School grammar calls them keiyōdōshi, but Japanese-language teaching usually calls them na-adjectives.

Literally "adjectival verb".

形容詞(けいようし): i-adjective (in school grammar, only the い type)
な形容詞(けいようし): na-adjective (the term used in teaching Japanese as a foreign language)
語幹(ごかん): word stem (静(しず)か is the stem; だ and な are endings)

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Added 2026.9.30 7:10 · Revised 2026.10.14 9:41

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