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好き(な) suki (na) liked, likable

大好き(な) daisuki (na) greatly liked

大変(な) taihen (na) terrific, terrible, quite
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嫌い(な) kirai (na) disliked, dislikable

大嫌い(な) daikirai (na) greatly disliked

素敵(な) suteki (na) excellent, swell

楽(な) raku (na) comfortable

立派(な) rippa (na) splendid, elegant

静か(な) shizuka (na) quiet

結構(な) kekkō (na) excellent, satisfactory

元気(な) genki (na) healthy, good-spirited

上手(な) jōzu (na) skillful, good at

便利(な) benri (na) convenient

下手(な) heta (na) unskillful, poor at

不便(な) fuben (na) inconvenient

有名(な) yūmei (na) famous, well-known

嫌(な) iya (na) unpleasant
にぎやか(な) nigiyaka (na) lively, bustling, gay

変(な) hen (na) queer, odd

大丈夫(な) daijōbu (na) safe

Most nouns belong to the ordinary class that have no for

the copula alternant (byōki no hito, puroguramā no Tanaka-san).
Some nouns belong to either class: ordinary no or adjectival

nouns. An example is iroiro: you can say either iroiro no or

iroiro na (commonly pronounced iron-na) to mean ‘various, of
various sorts’: