An explanation of how French adjectives should correspond with their names regarding their gender and plurality This agreement between an adjective and its name (or pronouns) is not optional. And it doesn`t go off like buying blue clothes for a boy and pink for a girl. “Intelligent” is not the French word for intelligent, it is the French male word for intelligent. Yes, it seems so difficult and tiring, and certainly everyone will understand when you say “My mre is smart” (what is an extra “e” after all, or an extra “t” sound in spoken French)? But when necessary, he is thirsty, it is complicated, it simply sounds wrong to say in English: some adjectives have both an irregular female form and a particular masculine form, used before a silent vowel or “h”: most French adjectives are rendered plural by adding -s to the singular form of the adjective (male or female). : Most adjectives in French come according to nostunton, unlike English. For example: Note: These adjectives are specific in the sense, non-generic like the one in . 288. They contain the names of the winds and months (No. 31).
For example, the noun is plural and feminine faldas (skirts), so that all the adjectives that are used to describe it are also plural and feminine. For example, as the name suggests, descriptive adjectives describe a certain quality of a nostun. Note: All adjective agreement rules also apply to adjective pronouns and entries. Spanish adjectives are usually listed in dictionaries in their male singular form, so it is important to know how to hold these singular male adjectives with any name you describe. Most adjectives end in o, e or a consonant in their unique male forms. Below are the rules for assigning these adjectives to their respective nouns in sex and numbers. (Consolation word. It is not only French that has male and female names and adjectives: you will find them in all Romance languages (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian…), as well as in many other languages. Moreover, in other Romance languages, the corresponding names are almost always the same sex. Hooray! You learn them once, and you`re all sitting down. (The sexes generally differ in non-Roman languages, though.) A. Some adjectives have practically become nouns and are often altered by other adjectives or the possessive gene.
Most French adjectives are placed according to the noun (s) they describe. Some French adjectives present themselves to the noun they have described. (See: French Grammar: Adjective Placement) However, most adjectives are hermaphrodite (like snails).