| 3.4 Adjectives |
The adjective gives a more detailed description to a noun.
| A red car. The little man. His soft voice. |
There are two different ways of using an adjective, in an attributive or a predicative way. In praxis this means that the adjective is used together with (attributive) or without (predicative) a noun.
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Le | jeune | homme | dort. | |
| The | young | man | sleeps. | ||
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Il | a | une | petite | maison. |
| He | has | a | little | house. | |
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Il | aime | les | bons | vins. |
| He | likes | the | good | wines. | |
| Predicative use |
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La | maison | est | grande. |
| The | house | is | big. | |
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Les | voitures | sont | chères. |
| The | cars | are | expensive. | |
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Le | temps | est | mauvais. |
| The | weather | is | bad. | |
This all does not sound too bad. Now, here comes the clou: In French there is a differentiation also in the adjective regarding the gender and the number of the noun. We will discuss this more in detail in the following chapter.
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