JLPT N5 · な-adjective

大人 (otona)

大人 (おとな, otona) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “adult; grown-up”. It appears in JLPT N5 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
おとな
Romaji
otona
Word class
な-adjective
Level
JLPT N5 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. adult; grown-up · noun, noun taking の, な-adjective

Example sentences

大人だけこの映画が見える。
Only adults can see this film.

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Conjugation of 大人

な-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.

FormJapaneseReading
Present (plain)大人だおとなだ otonada
Present (polite)大人ですおとなです otonadesu
Negative大人じゃないおとなじゃない otonajanai
Past大人だったおとなだった otonadatta
Negative past大人じゃなかったおとなじゃなかった otonajanakatta
Te-form大人でおとなで otonade
Before a noun大人なおとなな otonana
Adverb (~ni)大人におとなに otonani

Kanji in 大人

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 大人.

Source: JMdict entry 1414170 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.