French adjective agreement rulesFrench Adjective Agreement • August 26th, 2021
About-France.com the connoisseur's guide to France The table below lists the main families of adjectives in French; while there are certain exceptions that need to be learned individually, the groups below illustrate how to decline most French adjectives in their different forms. Nonetheless, given the number of exceptions, it is advisable to check a new adjective you learn, using a good dictionary. It is misleading to talk about regular and irregular adjectives in French. While there is a "general rule" (see table below), this rule only applies to about half of the more common adjectives in French. There are in fact ten more groups of adjectives after the general rule, and only half a dozen common adjectives that have completely irregular forms and must be learned individually. Table of French adjective forms Types of adjective: Examples Masc sing Fem sing Masc plural Fem plural Meaning The general rule grand cher fini noir grande chère finie noire grands chers finis noirs grandes chè
French adjective agreement rulesFrench Adjective Agreement • July 15th, 2023
An adjective is a word that modifies a noun by describing it in some way: shape, color, size, nationality, etc. French adjectives are very different from English adjectives in two ways: French adjectives change to agree in gender and number with the nouns that they modify, which means there can be up to four forms of each adjective: Adjective: "pretty" joli Masculine singular joli Feminine singular jolie Masculine plural jolis Feminine plural jolies In English, adjectives are always found in front of the noun, but most French adjectives follow the noun they modify: "green book" un livre vert "smart teacher" un professeur intelligent But there are some French adjectives that precede the noun: "handsome boy" un beau garçon "small glass" un petit verre French adjectives change to agree in gender and number with the nouns that they modify, which means there can be up to four forms of each adjective. The different forms for adjectives depend mostly on the final letter(s) of the default form
French adjective agreement worksheet pdfFrench Adjective Agreement • June 6th, 2021
Adjectives are another part of the speech. They are what we use to change the nouns to express things like color, size and shape, for example. In the following phrases, all underlined words are adjective: My coat is red That cat is really fat We made a tasty cake yesterday Rules about sex and number As you already know, the French has two kinds: male and female. Just like nouns are male or female, adjectives must also be modified according to sex. And of course, where there is the genre, there is also the number. When using an adjective it must agree with the noun that is describing in both genders – male or female – and number – singular or plural. This means that French adjectives can have up to four different forms: singular male; single female; plural male; and plural female. Does that sound complicated? Don't panic! It's easier than it looks. Most adjectives can be modified relatively easily with one and for the female, and a further s for plural. Let's see that it's practical. Bo
