JLPT N1 · な-adjective

月並 (tsukinami)

月並 (つきなみ, tsukinami) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “every month”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
つきなみ
Romaji
tsukinami
Word class
な-adjective
Level
JLPT N1 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. every month · noun, noun taking の
  2. trite; commonplace; conventional; hackneyed · な-adjective, noun · orig. used as an insult towards old-fashioned poets who would meet monthly to write poetry

Example sentences

月並みのパーティーだったよ。
That was just another party.

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

Conjugation of 月並

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present (plain)月並だつきなみだ tsukinamida
Present (polite)月並ですつきなみです tsukinamidesu
Negative月並じゃないつきなみじゃない tsukinamijanai
Past月並だったつきなみだった tsukinamidatta
Negative past月並じゃなかったつきなみじゃなかった tsukinamijanakatta
Te-form月並でつきなみで tsukinamide
Before a noun月並なつきなみな tsukinamina
Adverb (~ni)月並につきなみに tsukinamini

Kanji in 月並

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 月並.

Source: JMdict entry 1255810 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.