Negating Quasi Adjectives

[Sonozaki]

Delete this, made a newer more specific thread.

[Ronin4hire]

What's a quasi-adjective? Is it the same as a な　adjective?

If so then simply take out the な and add じゃない/じゃありません

[Harold]

Originally Posted by Sonozaki

To negate a normal adjective, I know you tack off the -i and add -ku nai.
How would I negate a Quasi adjective, though? This is one thing that's been puzzling me.

Also.. Would it be necessary for me to learn the Japanese symbols and everything? Do people standardly write that way in Japan?

Use the negative form of the copula verb depending on the situation and formality.

Yes. ~2000 kanji are needed to read a Japanese newspaper and ALL of the kana should be memorized

[Ronin4hire]

Originally Posted by Harold

Use the negative form of the copula verb depending on the situation and formality.

Yes. ~2000 kanji are needed to read a Japanese newspaper and ALL of the kana should be memorized

Put the what in the where?

Is that just a more fancy way of saying what I said?

[MMM]

The copula verb is DESU. so basically, yes, Ronin.

In simple terms. NA adjectives act like nouns.

Not convenient べんり　じゃない　です

Was convenient　べんり　でした

Wasn't convenient　べんり　じゃなかった　です　OR　べんり　じ ゃ　ありません　でした

[Sonozaki]

wut.

I have not a clue what any of you are saying. Keep in mind that I know nothing of the Japanese symbols; I'm very novice to all of this.

Here's an example:

Aoi means blue. To express something as 'not blue', you would say 'aoku nai'.
Taisetsu means important. What would I change to express something as 'not important'?

[KitsuneFr]

in romaji, MMM said:

For unvariable adjectives

convenient: benri desu
not convenient: benri janai desu
was convenient: benri deshita
was not convenient: benri janakatta desu or benri ja arimasen deshita

All of this in polite form

I must thank MMM, I did two years of japanese by myself, had to stop due to exams in my job that I try to pass since two years and these forms (with sha) weren't in my different learning books. So I learnt too tonight!

And thanks to Nathan to have corrected me, I lost my eyes and didn't see the tenten on up right of "shi" so I wrote first "sha" or "shanai"!

Demo, watashi wa mekura janai desu!