Marc is a honest man who likes trendy shirts.Īnd as I said, short and appreciative will be placed before the noun : Marc est un homme honnête qui aime les chemises chic.
the adjectives même, autre, and prochainįor example, note the place of the adjective at the following sentences, and how it’s different than in English :.The attributive adjective is placed after the noun.Īs an exception to this rule, the following adjectives are generally placed before : The house, blue as the sky, sits on the hill. La maison, bleue comme le ciel, trône sur la colline.Without a doubt, t he house on the hill is blue. Sans aucun doute, la maison sur la colline est bleue.An adjective in apposition is put between comas, like pausing the sentence to complement the noun.A predicative adjective ( adjectif attribut) is linked to the noun with the help of a verb.An attributive adjective ( adjectif épithète) is an adjective that is used directly with the noun they determine, without the help of a verb.There are 3 different ways to use French adjectives : The royale house (note that this time, maison is feminine)Īdditionally, French adjectives can receive a complement and become an adjectival group, that behaves like an single adjective : The royal throne (a relation : it’s the king’s trône) An adjective ( un adjectf) is a word that is associated to a noun to express one of its quality, or a relation that it has.įrench adjectives have a gender (masculine or feminine) and a number (singular or plural), and consequently they must agree with the noun that they determine.