The place of the adjective in French

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Do we say a red car or a red car? Where should we put the adjective, before or after the noun? Actually, it depends. That's what we're going to see together today.

Hello and thanks for joining me. Before we go any further, let's review the basics. What is an adjective? An adjective is simply a word that qualifies, that is, gives details about a noun.

For example, if you have the noun "house", we say "a house", and you want to give information, details, you want to qualify the noun "house", well you can use adjectives, you can say that the house is big, you say: it's a big house, it's a spacious house or it's a beautiful house.

Adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun.

For example, a house is a singular feminine noun, the adjective will be singular feminine.

The problem that sometimes arises for those poland whatsapp number data who are learning French is that the adjective can be found in different places. I said earlier "une grande maison", but I also said "une maison spatiale". So you see that in one case, the adjective is found before the noun, "une grande maison"; in the other case, it is found after, "une maison spatiale". And so I will tell you in a moment how to know if the adjective should be placed before or after the noun.

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So as we said, the adjective, in French, can be found either before or after the noun. The general rule, I'll tell you right now, is to put the adjective after the noun. It's the norm, let's say, it's the general rule. We put the adjective after the noun, especially when the adjective is long, when it has at least three syllables.

For example: an electric car, a beautiful landscape, an interesting book. You see, long adjectives are put after the noun.

This is also valid for adjectives of color and shape. We would say a white chair or a black cat or even round eyes or a square table.

Adjectives of nationality are also placed after the noun: a French actor, an Italian restaurant, an American comedian.

The same goes for adjectives of style or appearance: classic clothing, a short dress, dirty hands.

So you see, that's a lot of cases in which the adjective is placed after the noun. That's the majority, that's the basic rule.

So, when do we place the adjective before the noun? We already do it when the adjective is short or very common.

For example, the adjectives: young, old, beautiful, pretty, good, small, big, big, best, new etc.