Adjectives

I'm feeling uber lazy about Japanese characters today, so you'll just have to bear with me and my (slightly confused and inconsistent) romaji spellings.

It's adjective review time! I think I've done a post on this before, but it's been a while, and I took a Japanese break and started up again, so it's time for review.

There are two basic types of adjectives in Japanese: na-adjectives and i-adjectives. You can tell the difference because i-adjectives end in i and na-adjectives end in na.... in their dictionary forms. Actually, i-adjectives end in i pretty much all the time.

When using both types of adjectives before a noun (aka as an attributive adjective), they get their dictionary form with full ending.

For example:
ookii (i-adjective)
kore ookii uchi - this big house
shizukana (na-adjective)
kore shizukana heya - this quiet room

When using i-adjectives after the noun (aka as a predicative adjective), keep the i ending followed by 'desu'.
Kore uchi wa ookii desu. - This house is big.

When using na-adjectives in predicative position, drop the na ending, and then use desu.
Kore heya wa shizuka desu. - This room is quiet.

Some adjectives:
ookii - big
chiisai - small
shizuka(na) - quiet
tsumaranai - boring
hima(na) - not busy
isogashii - busy
tanoshii - fun
muzukashii - difficult
yasashii - easy (or for a person, kind)
omoshiroi - interesting
kirei - pretty, clean
hansomu(na) - handsome

And that's all for now!