い Adjectives After The Noun
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” - Albert Einstein
When an い adjective comes after the noun, it is very similar to な adjectives and how they work. Let’s take some な adjective examples:
この くるま は べんり です
This car is convenient
あの がくせい は きれい* です
That student is pretty
*remember, きれい is a なadj even though it has an い on the end of it!
Pretty straight forward there, I think. For the most part, you can just switch an い adjective out with the な adjective, and it will work, though there are a couple of small differences you need to know about.
- Unlike な adjectives, い adjectives keep the い
- い adjectives cannot be conjugated by でした, じゃありません, and じゃありませんでした like な adjectives so conveniently can.
Let’s take a look at some examples.
この くるま は うるさい です
This car is noisy
In the above sentence, you can see that I just switched out べんり with the い adjective うるさい.
Point 1: The word used, うるさい, kept it’s “い” on the end. な adjectives don’t keep their dongle.
Point 2: I used です (which you can use), but didn’t use でした, じゃありません, or じゃありませんでした, since those aren’t how you conjugate い adjectives. You’ll learn how to do that in the next chapter.
Because there isn’t a lot we can do with this pattern until you learn about い adjective conjugation, we’re going to move on pretty quickly. For い adjectives, it’s important you see the whole picture before you start using them. I know this chapter probably didn’t seem like a lot, but the next chapter makes up for it (and is very centered on getting you practice with both い and な adjectives).