～てよかったI'm glad that

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  Fuga

  Hey there @RadicalC !

  With nouns and な-adjectives, you would use じゃない・ではない before this grammar point.

  For example if you wanted to say, ‘I’m glad this job is not dangerous’, you would say, この仕事は危険じゃなくてよかった, in Japanese.

  I hope this helps!

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  RadicalC

  Yea that’s what I surmised but on the page it doesn’t necessary mention Noun/adjective use so this is why I wondered.

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  Jibun

  I see that this grammar point now includes nouns and な-adjectives, but I find the description for the negative form quite misleading. It currently states:

  ［な］Adjective + でなくて + で + よかった
  Noun + でなくて + よかった

  This seems to imply that, for a な-adjective, the form would be:

  静かでなくてでよかった

  However, as far as I understand, the correct forms should be:

  静かじゃなくてよかった
  静かではなくてよかった

  Similarly, for nouns, the description suggests something like:

  先生でなくてよかった

  But in practice, the natural and correct forms are:

  先生じゃなくてよかった
  先生ではなくてよかった

  I think that this description, together with the fact that there are no example sentences using negative nouns or な-adjectives, can easily lead to confusion and should be revised.