L'adjectif

Salut!

Today we are going to start studying the French adjectives.

As in English, adjectives in French are used with the nouns to describe the subject.  We place the adjective after the noun.

Femile nouns usually are formed adding an –e to the male adjective:

Male	Female	English
Étroit	Étroite	Tight
Grand	Grande	Big
Haut	Haute	Tall
Intelligent	Intelligente	Intelligent

However, if the male adjective already ends with an –e, you don’t have to modify the female form

Male	Female	English
Jeune	Jeune	Young
Humble	Humble	Humble
Rapide	Rapide	Fast

French Adjectives must be written in a plural form, adding an s to the singular to correspond with the number of the subject

UN HOMME INTELLIGENT

AN INTELLIGENT MAN

DES HOMMES INTELLIGENT

SOME INTELLIGENT MEN

LA PETITE VOITURE

THE LITTLE CAR

LES PETITES VOITURES

THE LITTLE CARS

As it happen with the nouns, there are a few exceptions where the plural don’t end with an s

  Pero, al igual que ocurría con los sustantivos, hay algunas excepciones dependiendo de la terminación del masculino singular: 

Singular ending	Plural ending
S	S
X	X
EAU	EAUX (*)
AL	AUX (*)

Let’s see some examples:

MALE SINGULAR	MALE PLURAL	ENGLISH
PRÉCIS	PRÉCIS	ACCURATE
BEAU	BEAUX	BEAUTIFUL
FATAL	FATALS	FATAL