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Plain: な-Adjective だ JLPT N5

The plain copula. な-adjectives are noun-like: they take だ rather than inflecting.

Formation

な-Adjective / Noun + だ: 静かだ, 学生だ.

Explanation

な-adjectives do not conjugate themselves; they attach the copula だ, exactly as a noun does. Learning the copula here therefore also covers noun + copula (学生だ).