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What is an adjective?

What do adjectives do?

Are colors adjectives?

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There are “deux” ways that an adjectif is different “en francais” from “en anglais”.

First, it FOLLOWS the noun is describes… Le stylo bleu. (The pen BLUE)

L’enfante blonde. (The girl child BLONDE)

Les profs intelligents. (The teachers SMART)

Sounds funny en anglais…!

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In addition to FOLLOWING the noun, they MUST also… AGREE with the noun!

What does this mean?

◦ The adjective AGREES in GENDER and NUMBER with the noun it describes

REGULAR ADJECTIVES…

FEMININE add an “E” to the end of the adjective

PLURIEL add a “S” to the end.

FEMININE et PLURIEL add an “ES” to the

end.

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Thus… if a noun is…

◦ MASCULINE the adjective is also masculine… Le garçon est petit.

◦ FEMININE the adjective MUST be feminine. La fille est petite.

◦ PLURAL the adjective is plural. Les garçons sont petits.

◦ FEMININE et PLURAL the adj MUST be feminine and plural.

Les filles sont petites.

Nothing is added

ADD « e »

ADD « s »

ADD « es »

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S

SS

ALONE, an adjective has PAS de gender ou numéro…An adjective simply REFLECTS the SAME gender and numéro of the NOUN it describes!

When the GENDER et NUMBER of the noun et the adjective DO NOT MATCH, the scale is tipped, the PHRASE N’est PAS

bonne!

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MASCULIN FEMININE

SINGULIER

PLURIEL

américainDavid est américain.

américaineJulie est américaine.

américainsDavid et Léo sont

américains.

américainesJulie et Sophie sont

américaines.

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MASCULIN FEMININE

SINGULIER

PLURIEL

brunIl est brun.

bruneElle est brune.

brunsLes garçons sont

bruns.

brunesLes filles sont

brunes.

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The original form of an adjective is the MASCULINE, SINGLUAR form. ◦ (ie: if you look an adjective up in the dictionary,

you find the masculine, singular form). http://www.wordreference.com/

ALL adjectives MUST AGREE (MATCH) with…◦ the GENDER (masculine or feminine)

◦ NUMBER (singluar or plural) of the noun it describes.

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La calculatrice / bleu

Les filles/ joli

Nous / intelligent

Les garçons/ amusant

L’étudiante/ français

La calculatrice est bleue.