N5 · Lesson 5
What is it like?
い-adjectives ／ な-adjectives
In this lesson, you will learn to describe things — delicious, expensive, quiet, famous — say what kind of thing something is, and say what you like, dislike, and are good or bad at.
By the end you will be able to say
すしが すきです。I like sushi.
やさいが きらいです。I dislike vegetables.
料理が じょうずです。I'm good at cooking.
この 町は しずかです。This town is quiet.
どんな 食べ物が すきですか。What kind of food do you like?
The grammar in this lesson
- い-adjectives, and their negative — Adjectives ending in い, and how to say the opposite.
- な-adjectives, and their negative — Adjectives that look like nouns — and きれい, the famous exception.
- Adjective + noun, and どんな — Put an adjective straight before its noun — and ask 'what kind of' with どんな。
- とても／あまり — very, and not very — Turn an adjective up or down.
- 〜が すき／きらい／じょうず／へた — Like, dislike, good at, bad at — and why the thing felt about takes が.