Combining a noun phrase with an adjective


How do you combine a noun phrase with an い-adjective? For example:

> red house: 赤い家
>
> house [I] went to last week: 先週に行った家
>
> red house [I] went to last week:
>
>   * 赤い先週に行った家?
>   * 赤く先週に行った家?
>   * 赤いに先週に行った家?
>   * 赤くて先週に行った家?
>   * 先週に行った赤い家?
>

Note in particular that I don't want 赤い to apply to 先週, which might be glossed
as "house I went to last red week". It's not clear how to make the distinction
here.




赤い先週に行った家?

The house (I) went to last red week.

赤く先週に行った家?

The house (I) went to last week (but you did it in a red way). <-- Meaning is
really weird.

赤いに先週に行った家?

The house (I) went to last week which belongs to red. <-- This has no meaning
at all.

赤くて先週に行った家?

The house (I) went to last week and which was red. <-- This kind of works...

先週に行った赤い家?

The red house (I) went to last week. <-- This is what you want. Although I
would not use に here. Don't ask me why because I can't tell you, but it sounds
really weird.

An い adjective will be put just before the word or group of words it applies
to. Just like in English, really.

In this case, if you put it anywhere else than before the word 家, the meaning
of the sentence becomes weird.




赤い先週に行った家?

The house (I) went to last red week.

赤く先週に行った家?

The house (I) went to last week (but you did it in a red way). <-- Meaning is
really weird.

赤いに先週に行った家?

The house (I) went to last week which belongs to red. <-- This has no meaning
at all.

赤くて先週に行った家?

The house (I) went to last week and which was red. <-- This kind of works...

先週に行った赤い家?

The red house (I) went to last week. <-- This is what you want. Although I
would not use に here. Don't ask me why because I can't tell you, but it sounds
really weird.

An い adjective will be put just before the word or group of words it applies
to. Just like in English, really.

In this case, if you put it anywhere else than before the word 家, the meaning
of the sentence becomes weird.

