Welcome to Japanese by Kenneth G. Henshall & Junji Kawai

Author:Kenneth G. Henshall & Junji Kawai
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0-8048-3376-1
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

5.5.1 Adjectives

You have already learned how to make certain adjectives using no, namely the possessive (e.g. watashi no "my") as well as "appositional" ones such as "Japanese" (Nihon no, or Nihon jin no or Nihongo no depending on exact meaning).

We can quickly introduce another set of related adjectives, the demonstratives. In the sentence "This is a pen" (Kore wa pen desu, a famous sentence in Japan as it features prominently in many English textbooks), the word "this" is a stand-alone, i.e. a (demonstrative) pronoun, whereas in "This pen is mine" the same word "this" becomes an adjective. And you have in fact already encountered another demonstrative adjective in pronoun List 5a, ano in ano hito ("he/she"), which literally means "that person." A list of demonstrative adjectives follows:

LIST 5h: Demonstrative adjectives

kono this

sono that (by you)

ano that (over there)

dono which?

konna this sort of

sonna that sort of, such

anna that sort of

donna what sort of?

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