Can we use ~た form to make a verb an adverb?


I've got this phrase:

> コンタクトすると目が乾いた感じになって、目が赤くなります。

Which means:

> When I use contacts, my eyes feel dry and become red.

Pretty easy, but there's a little thing with the usage of the ~た form which I
don't understand. When they say 目が乾いた感じになって, I'd rather have used
目が乾性{かんせい}な感じになって, to express the dry feeling. Would this also be correct?




This 乾いた is perfectly fine and natural. Here, 乾いた is a relative clause that
modifies 感じ, so this 乾いた is functionally more like an adjective than an
adverb.

  * [What are the general principles of using verbs to modify nouns (e.g. 焦げるトースト/焦げたトースト)?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/11975/5010)
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In your case, 感じ ("feeling") is not a tangible object, but the same principle
applies. 乾いた感じ refers to a feeling that something has dried.

On the other hand, 乾性 sounds awfully strange in a context like this. For one
thing, 乾性 is a highly stiff technical term (See: [汗をかくvs 発汗する - is there a
difference?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/33685/5010)). For another,
乾性 usually refers to a type of a product, etc., not a state of something. If
you want to use a kango, you can say 目が乾燥した感じになって (乾燥 is not so stiff, and
usually is safe in casual conversations).




This 乾いた is perfectly fine and natural. Here, 乾いた is a relative clause that
modifies 感じ, so this 乾いた is functionally more like an adjective than an
adverb.

  * [What are the general principles of using verbs to modify nouns (e.g. 焦げるトースト/焦げたトースト)?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/11975/5010)
  * ["太ってる猫" vs "太った猫"](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/3361/5010)

In your case, 感じ ("feeling") is not a tangible object, but the same principle
applies. 乾いた感じ refers to a feeling that something has dried.

On the other hand, 乾性 sounds awfully strange in a context like this. For one
thing, 乾性 is a highly stiff technical term (See: [汗をかくvs 発汗する - is there a
difference?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/33685/5010)). For another,
乾性 usually refers to a type of a product, etc., not a state of something. If
you want to use a kango, you can say 目が乾燥した感じになって (乾燥 is not so stiff, and
usually is safe in casual conversations).

