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Originally Posted by WoHenNi
No, I'd wager you're correct. I'm still learning Japanese and I'm nowhere near perfect. 
I was just explaining what my Japanese Sensei explained to me and the way I understood it. But... you've open up a discussion so I've done a bit of research. ^^
From what I could find... there are ～いand ～な adjectives... as well as quasi-adjectives. Quasi-adjectives appear to end in every other sound except "E" and I didn't find many that ended in a definite ～い (doesn't include "Ri", or "Ki" etc.) I have no idea. This is just from what I've seen. So... please not that the above has NO CREDIBILITY whatsoever. You draw you own conclusions from what you know. |
As far as I know the only way to tell them apart with no doubt is looking at the kanji. In a な adjective, even if it finishes with a い when written with かな that い is part of the kanji's reading.
In a い adjective instead the final い is not part of the kanji itself. A little bit like it works for the verbs. That's why I said to the OP that in the beginning it will be hard to recognize them since he is still using ローマ字.