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Ryōri ni narete inai hito ga tsukutta/tabemono wa amari

tabetaku nai.
I don’t want to eat dishes prepared by someone
who is not used to cooking.

5.2. Modifier clauses made with adjectives

Recall that the full meaning of real adjectives in Japanese is

not just ‘good, bad, white, red’ and the like but ‘IS good, IS
bad, IS white, IS red’ etc.:

いいから ii kara because it’s good

悪かったけれども it was bad, but
warukatta keredomo

白くていいから shirokute it’s nice and white, so…

ii kara

Just as verbs can have a subject in Japanese, so can

adjectives. And in modifier clauses, the particle that follows
the subject is either ga (emphatic) or no (non-emphatic):

天候が悪いところ

tenkō ga warui tokoro

a place where the WEATHER’S bad

天候の悪いところ

tenkō no warui tokoro

a place where the weather’s BAD