的 details

Examples

-like; relating to — recasts an abstract noun as a na-adjective naming a quality, category, or standpoint

彼かれの説明せつめい、なんか感情かんじょう的てきすぎない？

kare no setsumei, nanka kanjoutekisuginai?

Isn't his explanation kind of overly emotional? casual

もっと具体ぐたい的てきな例れいを挙あげてもらえますか。

motto gutaiteki na rei o agete moraemasu ka.

Could you give a more concrete example? neutral

今後こんごは経済けいざい的てきな観点かんてんからも慎重しんちょうに検討けんとういたします。

kongo wa keizaiteki na kanten kara mo shinchou ni kentou itashimasu.

Going forward, we will also carefully examine this from an economic standpoint too. formal

Formation

N（歴史[れきし]・科学[かがく]・個人[こじん]など、主[おも]に漢語[かんご]の抽象[ちゅうしょう]名詞[めいし]）＋的attaches to noun phrase (schematic)

Notes

な links 的てき to an ordinary noun and is the default in speech
(現実げんじつ的てきな計画けいかく); written kango compounds attach 的
directly with no な (基本きほん的てき人権じんけん, 社会しゃかい的てき
地位ちい) — a closed, lexicalized set, not a general option.

Related patterns

Similar

っぽい
Both turn a noun into a quality adjective, but 的[てき] draws on abstract Sino-Japanese vocabulary for a formal, category-level description (女性[じょせい]的[てき]な服装[ふくそう] "feminine attire"), while っぽい reads a casual surface impression off concrete nouns, often faintly critical (女[おんな]っぽい服[ふく] "womanish clothes") — swapping one for the other shifts both register and tone.