In the sentence:
でも今は問題なく食べることができます
Demo ima wa mondai naku taberu koto ga dekimasu"
what is the grammatical nature of "mondai naku"? Is it a noun, an adjective or an adverb?
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2Do you understand the sentence? What are your own thoughts?– user3856370Commented Jul 6, 2023 at 22:15
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1Yeah. The sentence can be translated as: "but now i am able to eat it without any problem".– user56721Commented Jul 7, 2023 at 19:30
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It's adverbial, i.e., it modifies a verb. In general, the ku-form of an adjective is also known as the adverbial form.
- この車は速く走る。(adverbial)
This car runs fast. - 速い電車 (adjectival)
a fast car
ない is a bit special in that it can take certain nouns and work like a suffix meaning "-less(ly)", but the resulting phrase is still grammatically an adjective, so its ku-form is adverbial. You can think 問題ない is a distinct adjective.
Similar example:
- 変わりない日々
uneventful days - 変わりなく日々を過ごしています。
I spend days uneventfully.
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Out of the options given it would have to be 'adverb' but is there anything to stop the answer being 'verb', i.e. negative, continuative form of ある: "It's not a problem now, and I can eat it"? Commented Jul 7, 2023 at 9:32
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2@user3856370 You need a comma to force that parsing strategy because the adverbial reading makes perfect sense. Besides, ない is an adjective (or adjective-like auxiliary) anyway, not a form of ある.– narutoCommented Jul 7, 2023 at 10:08
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@naruto thank you– user56721Commented Jul 7, 2023 at 19:49
One note is that I feel that なく in cases like this can simply be a shorter and more formal form of なくて if that helps...
So your sentence can also be written as "でも今は問題（が）なくて、食べることができます".
