Adjective Conjugation Review

Adjective conjugation review

There are two types of adjectives in Japanese: i-adjectives and na-adjectives. The type of adjective is determined by its ending and how you conjugate them changes on which group the adjective belongs to. 

 い adjectives 

All i-adjectives end in い, for example, たのしい (tanoshii):

There is one exception in this group: いいです. This conjugates by changing the いい to よ

The てform for いいです also follows the いい to よ pattern: よくて

な adjectives

Na-adjectives, for example, しずか: 

Often people confuse na-adjectives that end with an い as an i-adjective but they are actually na-adjectives, for example きらい (kirai).

Nouns

The conjugation of nominal predicates or nouns used as a predicate, is the same as Na-Adjectives. For example, the noun がくせい conjugation is: