Language/French/Grammar/Adverb—adjective-compounds

Compound adjectives — Adverb-adjective compounds

Where an adverb and an adjective are combined, the adverb (always the first element) remains invariable and the adjective agrees:

	Compound Adjective	Plural
French	haut placé	Je connais des fonctionnaires haut placés qui pourraient nous aider
English	highly placed	I know some highly placed civil servants who could help us
French	bien intentionné	Ce sont toujours les personnes bien intentionnées qui créent le plus de problèmes
English	well-intentioned	It's always the well-intentioned people who cause the most problems
French	avant-coureur	Voilà les signes avant-coureurs d'une maladie grave
English	early-warning	There are the early-warning signs of a serious illness

Other Lessons

• Plural forms of adjectives — Adjectives which end in al
• Typical use of the definite article
• The indirect object complement
• Pronominal verbs used reflexively
• Location of adverbs modifying sentences
• Plural of Nouns
• Reciprocal se and cases of potential ambiguity
• Grammatical and real gender
• Use of y in constructions where à does not introduce an indirect object
• Indefinite article
• Non specific use of y
• Masculine Nouns Ending in ée
• Position of y and en with negative infinitives
• Adjectives used as adverbs without addition of —ment
• Emphasizing the reciprocal use of se by adding l'un l'autre