Accessibility options


Tiscali: French Phrase Finder - Adjectives

Phrases

Adjectives

Adjectives normally follow the noun they describe in French,

e.g.




la pomme verte (the green apple)


Some common exceptions which precede the noun are:

beau beautiful, bon good, grand big, haut high, jeune young, long long, joli pretty, mauvais bad, nouveau new, petit small, vieux old,

e.g.




un bon livre (a good book)


French adjectives have to reflect the gender of the noun they describe. To make an adjective feminine, an e is added to the masculine form (where this does not already end in an e, i.e. jeune). A final consonant which is usually silent in the masculine form is pronounced in the feminine:



masc.
le livre vert


fem.
la pomme verte








luh leevr vehr




la pom vehrt




(the green book)




(the green apple)


To make an adjective plural, an s is added to the singular form: masculine plural - verts (remember - the ending is still silent: vehr) or feminine plural - vertes (because of the e, the t ending is sounded: vehrt ).


 



my, your, his, her

These words also depend on the gender and number of the noun they accompany and not on the sex of the 'owner'.





masculine.


feminine.


plural




singular


singular


nouns


my


mon


ma


mes


your
(familiar, singular)


ton


ta


tes


his/her


son


sa


ses


our


notre


notre


nos


your
(polite and plural)


votre


votre


vos


their


leur


leur


leurs


 

 

 

Advertisement starts



Advertisement ends

Skip to page content | Text onlyGraphical version of this page

Tiscali Quicklinks. Please visit our Accessibility Page for a list of the Access Keys you can use to find your way around the site, skip directly to the main navigation, to the page content, or to more links within reference.

web |  shopping |  this site |  video |  local services

Page Footer


Access keys


You will need to use different key combinations in order to use access keys depending on your internet browser, find out which on our accessibility page.
  • (0) Navigate to Accessibility page.
  • (1) Navigate to Home page.
  • (2) Navigate to My email.
  • (3) Navigate to My Account.
  • (4) Navigate to Site Map page.
  • (5) Navigate to Contact us page.
  • (6) Navigate to Members channel.
  • (7) Navigate to Services channel.
  • (8) Navigate to News & Info channel.
  • (9) Navigate to Entertainment channel.
  • ([) Skip down to the Primary navigation block.
  • (]) Skip down to the more links within this section block.
  • (=) Bypass all navigation and jump to the content.
  • (x) Text only version of this page.
Background images used:
furniture images used in the site icons used in the site images used in the header