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い-adjectives
For い-adjectives the く-form is used in a number of contexts.
As you noted,
if you wanted to say
It's not dark.
you'd say
暗くない
If you want to say
It'll get dark.
you'd say
暗くなる
So, in the example sentence you provided
もう暗くなったから、帰りましょう。
Because it's already gotten dark, let's head home.
な-adjectives
And for completeness sake, let's look ...
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Doing some research, I've gathered the following:
When the predicate in an adverbial clause is stative in nature, its form does not change, regardless of the form in the main clause.
寒い{さむ}時{とき}、コートを着{き}ます。
"I wear a coat when it's cold."
寒い{さむ}時{とき}、コートを着{き}ました。
"I wore a coat when it was cold."
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The following is my intuition.
The pattern is Aとき, B, where A is an adjective.
(1) If you mean Whenever A, B, then both A and B are in dictionary form.
暑い時はビールがおいしい Whenever it is hot, beer tastes good.
In this case 暑かったとき is not possible.
(2) If you mean an event in the past as When A, B happened, then B is in ta-form and A can be either in ta-form or in ...
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AFAIK, there is no real difference between adjectives and verbs in terms of when to use their past-tense or non-past forms with 時. Both forms are valid and useful, but they do not mean the same thing.
I think the trick here is to understand that there's nothing really special (grammatically) about the 時 constructs: 時 is just a noun, which means "(a/...
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Let's look at each of your sample sentences in turn.
食べ物が美味しさですか?
Breaking this down word for word:
[食]{た}べ[物]{もの}
eating-thing → food
が
[subject particle]
[美味しさ]{おいしさ}
deliciousness (as a degree or amount)
です
[copula]: is, are
か?
[question marker]
Putting this together:
食べ物が美味しさですか?
Is food [a degree of] deliciousness?
That doesn't make a lot of sense, ...
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Let's look at your sentences and explore their meaning.
食べ物が美味しさですか
This says, "Is the food tastiness?" I don't think that's what you want to say.
食べ物が美味しいんですか
This could possibly work, but it still sounds a bit off to me. (But, I'm not a native speaker.) What strikes me odd here is the use of the particle が. Had you written it as
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Adverbs describe the manner in which something happens. In your example sentence, there is no manner being described. Rather, the sentence describes a transition into a particular state of being. (After a number of comments, perhaps it's just best to jump to the end of this post where I walk through the traditional Japanese grammatical way of thinking ...
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