Adjective Agreement and Placement
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Adjective Agreement and Placement
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The Rule
•Adjectives must agree with the noun it modifies in gender and number.
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What does it mean?
• ADJECTIVES (words that describe a noun) must AGREE (be in the same form) with the NOUN (person, place or thing) it MODIFIES (changes in character or form) in GENDER (a system of classification, in this case Masculine or Feminine) and NUMBER (single or plural).
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Making Agreementwith regular adjectives
SingularPlural
Masculine - - - - - S
Feminine - E - ES
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You have already seen the AGREEMENT rule when
using articles.
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Masculine / Singular noun with definite article
Le cahier
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Masculine / Plural
Les cahiers
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Feminine/Singularwith definite article
• La calculatrice
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Feminine/Plural
• Les calculatrices
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Singular / Masculine Nounwith indefinite article
Un crayon
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Plural / Masculine Noun
Des crayons
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Feminine / Singular Nounwith indefinite article
• Une trousse
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Feminine / Plural Noun
Des Trousses
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You make the same changes when you add adjectives to describe
your nouns. Think equality! Whatever
characteristic your noun has (m/f, s/p) all words describing that noun MUST have the SAME
characteristics!
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Masculine/Singular with adjective agreement
• Le cahier vert
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Masculine Plural with adjective agreement
• Les cahiers verts
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Feminine Singular with adjective agreement
• La trousse rose
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Feminine Pluralwith adjective agreement
• Les trousses roses
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Placement
• Did you notice where the colors were placed? In French, adjectives are placed AFTER the noun. Naturally, there is an exception called BANGS (but that is a whole different lesson that we will work on after you get this one down!).
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Now you try!
• The blue backpack
• Le sac à dos bleu
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Make the changes! Think equality and word order!
• The blue backpacks
• Les sacs à dos bleus
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Keep going…
• The green calculator
• La calculatrice verte
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…and if it is plural???
• The green calculators
• Les calculatrices vertes
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Now it’s your turn!
• 1. Identify the noun in the sentence.• 2. Is the noun masculine or feminine?• 3. Is the noun singular or plural?• 4. Apply the answers to #2 and #3 to
ALL words that DESCRIBE the NOUN!
• BON COURAGE!
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Can you fill in the blanks?
• J’ai une gomme (rose).• Tu as un stylo (bleu)?• Coline a une trousse
(vert).• Nous avons des cahiers
(noir).• Madame a des classeurs
(blanc).
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• J’ai une gomme rose.• Tu as un stylo bleu?• Coline a une trousse verte.• Nous avons des cahiers noirs.• Madame a des classeurs
blancs.
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Remember… EQUALITY!
•Adjectives must agree with the noun it modifies in gender and number.
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Now, translate!
• Marc and Luc have green backpacks.• Mr. LeDuc does not have a red pen.• They have the blue books.• I need the red book.• Do you have the orange ruler?• Colette does not have the blue
binder.• He has a black pencil case.
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1. Marc et Luc ont les sacs à dos verts.2. M. LeDuc n’a pas de stylo rouge.3. Ils ont les livres bleus.4. Il me faut un livre rouge.5. As-tu une règle orange?6. Colette n’a pas de classeur bleu. 7. Il a une trousse noire.
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One final note…
• This one concept, for me, was the hardest thing I had to learn in French! But, don’t give up! If you follow the steps you will get it and if you get it now you won’t have to relearn it when the concept of AGREEMENT reappears. And, trust me…it reappears frequently! So BON COURAGE! Now, go forth and make your adjectives agree!