Thursday, January 2, 2020

Using な particle after common nouns (non na-adjectives)


Is な particle allowed to be used after common nouns (i.e non na-adjectives) for whatever reasons, e.g. cuteness, trendy, humor etc?



Dictionary@goo website seems to use (normal noun)+な in a couple of the column names:



Is this kind of ungrammatical usage of な particle allowed in publication?



Answer



This may not be the "standard" way to use な, but I don't see anything particularly wrong with it, especially considering how it can shorten titles and save space. JAPANなニュース and ニュースな英語 sound better than JAPANに関するニュース and ニュースに出てくる英語, don't they?


For a more extreme example of this non-standard な, you can look at the way Yui Horie signs off of her weekly radio show, 天使のたまご. This is from the June 26th, 2011 show:



この時間のお相手は「そんなにたくさん恋愛の石をつけててダメだったらどうしよう?」堀江由衣でした。



Everything in the 「」 (which she changes every week) is wrapped up by the な and used to modify 堀江由衣. Of course, just because she uses な this way doesn't mean you can start throwing なs around like shurikens in a ninja fight, but it goes to show that there are more ways to use な than are in the dictionary.



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