Japanese Language Grammar Negative Adjective

This article will mainly focus to learn how to create or to modify a Japanese adjective to be changed in a Japanese negative adjective. As we already knew there are two types of Japanese adjective. The first one is called the –i type adjective and the latter on is called the -na type adjective.  First of all, we are going to explain it using the following table comparison :

The first type, the –i type adjective   （－い　形用紙）

It consists of adjective which all of members of this adjective type are ended with the pronunciation of ‘i’  sound. To create a negative form out of this Japanese adjective is actually quite simple. We just erase the ‘i’ and replace it with ‘ku’ as shown in the table comparison above.  We will try to elaborate it in the following table with additional examples as follows :

For an example :

We are using –i type Japanese adjective ‘hikui’ which can be translated as ‘low, short’. In the above example, it is modified into a negative pattern ‘hikukunai’.

We will try to give another example by using the other form in a polite form as shown below :

The next type is a Japanese –na type adjective

The latter is a –na type adjective which is generally don’t end with an –‘i’ letter. But some of them exists and is considered to be the member of this type such as ‘kirei’, ‘genki’, ‘yuumei’, ‘teinei’,’benri’,’suki’,’kirai’. To be able to change it into a negative form, we can just add ‘jya nai’ for a plain form or ‘jya arimasen’ for amore polite one.

For an example    :

Another example  in a more polite form is shown below: