Adjectives à fond

Let's paint a picture of French grammar using descriptive adjectives in all their weird and wonderful glory.

French adjectives are tricky for a couple of different reasons.

🤝 Agreement: the vast majority of adjectives have to agree with their nouns in gender and number.

↔️ Placement: most adjectives are placed after their nouns, with some notable exceptions.

Today’s issue of Lawless French à fond takes an in-depth look at these aspects of French adjectives to help you describe to your heart's content.

Table of Contents

1. Lessons

2. Listening

3. Quiz Time

4. Writing

5. Juste pour rigoler

6. Remerciements

Lessons

First things first: if you have any doubts about what an adjective actually is, start with Adjectives 101. 🏁

Also note that while there are many different types of adjectives, today we're focusing on the most common, complicated, and diverse type: descriptive adjectives.

🤝 Adjective Agreement

With regard to agreement, you need to know that while most adjectives are regular (as explained in 101, above), there are also a few irregular adjectives that even a have an extra form used in very specific constructions.

There are also a number of invariable adjectives.

↔️ Adjective Position

While most adjectives follow nouns, an important few precede nouns. And there are some that can precede or follow depending on their meaning.

The expression bonnet blanc et blanc bonnet is a weird exception to all of the above.

💡 Adjectivity

Can't get enough? Here are some other lessons related to adjectives.

• Adjectives used as adverbs

• Adjectives used as nouns

• Adjectives + prepositions (e.g., prêt à, capable de)

• Adjectives vs pronouns

• Non-adjectives (other parts of speech used as adjectives)

Listening

Improve your listening skills with these adjective-filled audio articles.

Les maillots du Tour de France B1

Petits Portraits entre Amis A1

Quelques faits intéressants sur le français B1

🙋 A1 - B1 ?

These are 2 of the 6 CEFR proficiency levels.

Quiz Time

See how you do with adjective agreement in these fill-in-the-blanks quizzes.

• Deux frères

• Deux sœurs

• Développer la Francophonie

• Ma maison bariolée

• Mes meilleurs amis

• Rentrée à l'université

• La Saint-Nicolas en France

Writing

Practice your French translation skills and adjective placement with some writing exercises.

A stylish couple A1

Arnaud and Ophélie describe themselves A1

Drawing a face A2

My hotel room A1

New TV A2

Mister Snowman A2

Juste pour rigoler

Comic courtesy of Malachi Ray Rempen, ItchyFeetComic.com

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💗 Remerciements

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