So there are two different types of adjectives: い and な right? it has nothing to do if its in kanji or not. so don't worry about that at all.
Unfortunately it's one of those things that you just have to memorize. But I can give you a list of a few adjectives in hiragana, kanji and then english. (*note that some of them don't use any kanji at all).
い - adjectives:
あたらしい 新しい new
あつい 暑い hot (weather)
あつい 熱い hot (objects)
いそがしい 忙しい busy (people/days)
おおきい 大きい large
おもしろい 面白い interesting
こわい 怖い frightening
さむい 寒い cold (objects - not used for people)
たかい 高い expensive
とのしい 楽しい fun
ちいさい 小さい small
つまらない boring
ふるい 古い old (thing - not used for people)
むずかしい 難しい difficult
やさしい easy (problem); kind (person)
やすい 安い inexpensive; cheap (thing)
あたまがいい 頭がいい bright; smart; clever (conjugates like いい)
かっこいい great looking; cool (conjugates like いい)
かわいい cute
せがたかい 背が高い tall
せがひくい 背が低い short (stature)
ながい 長い long
はやい 速い fast
みじかい 短い short (length)
な - adjectives:
きらい(な) 嫌い disgusted with; to dislike (~が)
きれい(な) beautiful; clean
げんき(な) 元気 healthy; energetic
しずか(な) 静か quiet
すき(な) 好き fond of; to like (~が)
だいきらい(な)大嫌い to hate
だいすき(な) 大好き very fond of; to love
にぎやか(な) lively
ハンサム(な) handsome
ひま(な) 暇 not busy; to have a lot of free time
たいへん(な) 大変 tough (situation)
しんせつ(な) 親切 kind
べんり(な) 便利 convenient
じょうず(な) 上手 skillful; good at... (~が)
へた(な) 下手 clumsy; poor at... (~が)
ゆうめい(な) 有名 famous
i hope that this helped :)
Posted by Anonymous on Jul 15th, 2010 at 12:00 pm.
So there are two different
So there are two different types of adjectives: い and な right? it has nothing to do if its in kanji or not. so don't worry about that at all.
Unfortunately it's one of those things that you just have to memorize. But I can give you a list of a few adjectives in hiragana, kanji and then english. (*note that some of them don't use any kanji at all).
い - adjectives:
あたらしい 新しい new
あつい 暑い hot (weather)
あつい 熱い hot (objects)
いそがしい 忙しい busy (people/days)
おおきい 大きい large
おもしろい 面白い interesting
こわい 怖い frightening
さむい 寒い cold (objects - not used for people)
たかい 高い expensive
とのしい 楽しい fun
ちいさい 小さい small
つまらない boring
ふるい 古い old (thing - not used for people)
むずかしい 難しい difficult
やさしい easy (problem); kind (person)
やすい 安い inexpensive; cheap (thing)
あたまがいい 頭がいい bright; smart; clever (conjugates like いい)
かっこいい great looking; cool (conjugates like いい)
かわいい cute
せがたかい 背が高い tall
せがひくい 背が低い short (stature)
ながい 長い long
はやい 速い fast
みじかい 短い short (length)
な - adjectives:
きらい(な) 嫌い disgusted with; to dislike (~が)
きれい(な) beautiful; clean
げんき(な) 元気 healthy; energetic
しずか(な) 静か quiet
すき(な) 好き fond of; to like (~が)
だいきらい(な)大嫌い to hate
だいすき(な) 大好き very fond of; to love
にぎやか(な) lively
ハンサム(な) handsome
ひま(な) 暇 not busy; to have a lot of free time
たいへん(な) 大変 tough (situation)
しんせつ(な) 親切 kind
べんり(な) 便利 convenient
じょうず(な) 上手 skillful; good at... (~が)
へた(な) 下手 clumsy; poor at... (~が)
ゆうめい(な) 有名 famous
i hope that this helped :)