- 1. [adj-na, n] praiseworthy; commendable; laudable
- 2. [adj-na] strange (person); weird; odd — non-standard usage (col)
Conjugation — Adjective (―na)
This word itself does not change -- these are forms of the copula だ ("to be") attached to it.
| Attributive (before a noun) | きとくな | (kitokuna) |
| Non-past, plain | きとくだ | (kitokuda) |
| Non-past, polite | きとくです | (kitokudesu) |
| Past, plain | きとくだった | (kitokudatta) |
| Past, polite | きとくでした | (kitokudeshita) |
| Negative, plain | きとくじゃない | (kitokujanai) |
| Negative, polite | きとくじゃないです | (kitokujanaidesu) |
| Past negative, plain | きとくじゃなかった | (kitokujanakatta) |
| Past negative, polite | きとくじゃなかったです | (kitokujanakattadesu) |
| Te-form | きとくで | (kitokude) |
| Conditional (―nara) | きとくなら | (kitokunara) |