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Adjective agreement with nouns — An adjective agreeing with nouns linked by et, ou or ni
The adjective may agree with the closest noun only:
- une table et une chaise bleue
a table and a blue chair
The adjective may agree with all the nouns, in which case it will be plural, and will be feminine only if all the nouns are feminine. Otherwise it will be masculine:
- une table et une chaise bleues
a blue table and chair
- Il ne portait ni de veste ni de pantalon bleus
He was wearing neither a blue jacket nor a blue pair of trousers
un stylo ou un cahier bleus a blue pen or exercise book
Take some time to dive into these other pages after completing this lesson: Possessive determiners, Omission of the article, Imperatives & Combinations of adjectives.
Other Lessons[edit | edit source]
- Intransitive Verb constructions
- Subject verb agreement — Agreement with more than one subject linked by “et”
- Position of direct and indirect object pronouns
- Negations
- Indirect and Direct Transitive Verbs
- Definite article
- Plurals of nouns ending in s, x, z
- How to use « il s'agit de » in French
- Future Tense
- Time adverbs
- An adjective agreeing with nouns linked by de
- Function of adverbs
- se as an alternative to an English passive
- Choosing between il est and c'est
- Easy way of generating the imperfect subjunctive