- Japanese⇔English Dictionary

(kanji info)
  1. 1. [adj-na, n] innocent; naive; artless; unaffected; genuine; childlike (yoji)

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) (tenshinranmanna)
Non-past, plain (tenshinranmanda)
Non-past, polite (tenshinranmandesu)
Past, plain (tenshinranmandatta)
Past, polite (tenshinranmandeshita)
Negative, plain (tenshinranmanjanai)
Negative, polite (tenshinranmanjanaidesu)
Past negative, plain (tenshinranmanjanakatta)
Past negative, polite (tenshinranmanjanakattadesu)
Te-form (tenshinranmande)
Conditional (―nara) (tenshinranmannara)

Kanji in this word

Example Sentences

Naivete is his only merit.