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Grammar detail: の adjectives

の adjectives
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Many Japanese words, almost always nouns or pronouns, can be used as adjectives by adding の at the end.
えいえん
永遠
の
あい
愛
 eternal love
ひんし
瀕死
の
じゅうしょう
重傷
 a life-threatening injury
たて
縦
じまのシャツ
Some words can be used as の adjectives or other forms of adjective. For, example,
あお
青
 actually has three forms of adjective:
あお
青
いセータ a blue sweater
あお
青
な
きも
気持
ち a blue feeling
あお
青
の
じかん
時間
 a blue time
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Kanji used in this grammar

永
エイ   long time   ながい long (time)   
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4
遠
エン   オン   far away   とおい far   
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3
愛
アイ    love   
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3
瀕
ヒン to face   
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死
シ   death   しぬ die   
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2
重
ジュウ   チョウ   おもい heavy   かさなる to be piled up   かさねる to pile up   え -fold, -ply   
2
傷
ショウ   きず wound   いたむ to go bad, be damaged   いためる to injure   
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5
縦
ジュウ   たて vertical, length   
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5
青
セイ   ショウ   あお-    あおい blue   
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2
気
キ   ケ    spirit   
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1
持
ジ   もつ to hold, to have   
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2
時
ジ   とき time, occasion   
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1
間
カン   ケン   あいだ interval, between   ま space, room   
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1
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