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I was playing Fire Emblem If (暗夜) yesterday and came across a construction I did not know beforehand, な-adjectives apparently turned into adverbs using く.
お前｛まえ｝のことは、父上｛ちちうえ｝に上手｛じょうず｝く言っておこう
I am not sure I understand the function of 上手く here. My rough translation is:
Let's prepare your father by telling him about what you did well.
But I am not sure at all about how 上手 fits into this sentence.
This one's weird because it's not actually じょうず like you'd think; it's うまい, which is an i-adjective and can be conjugated like you see there.
Now, translation is not exactly one of my stronger suits, but I was able to find a dictionary entry for this on Jisho: http://jisho.org/search/%E4%B8%8A%E6%89%8B%E3%81%8F
