French Doze: Adjectives-Agreement and Position(Lecture # 3)

Adjectives

Ajectives in French vary in form to agree with the number and gender of the words they modify.

The plural of adjectives is formed in the same way as the plural of nouns of similar ending.       

             le petit garcon,   the little boy      

             les petits garcons, the little boys      

             le mauvais roi, the bad king      

             les mauvais rois, the bad kings

 The feminine of adjectives is regularly formed by adding mute "e" to the masculine. 

            le grand jardin, the large garden 

            la grande ville, the large city 

            les grands jardins, the large gardens 

            les grandes villes, the large cities 

When the same adjective modifies nouns of different gender it takes the musculine form.

           The boy and girl are small. le garcon et la fille sont petits.

           His son and his daughter are bad. Son fils et sa fille sont mauvais. 

Very many adjective in French follow the word they qualify,especially: 

(a) those denoting color,shapes,or nationality; 

(b) those of participial derivation; 

(c) those having more syllables than the words they qualify. 

             the green tree, i'arbre vert 

             the round table, la table ronde 

             a French city, une ville francaise 

             a charming child, un enfant charmant

             an excellent man, un homme excellent 

Some of the most common adjectives regularly precede the word they qualify.The most important among these are:

            beau, beautiful      grand, large          jeune, young 

            bon, good             joli, pretty            gros, big 

            vieux, old             mauvais, bad        villain, ugly 

            petit, little             nouveau, new        

            an ugly nose, un vilain nez 

As French has no neuter gender,there is no special word for the pronoun "it".This pronoun,when used as subject,must be translated by il or elle according to the gender of the noun for which it stands.

             I have a book;it is green. J'ai un liver; il est vert. 

             I have a room; it is small. J'ai une chambre; elle est prtite.

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