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Adjective agreement with nouns — Adjectives agreeing with just one noun
Adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun whose meaning they modify. This is usually straightforward when there is just one noun:
- d'une voix hésitante
in a faltering voice
- ce fameux dimanche
that famous Sunday
- L'eau était froide
The water was cold
- Il lançait aux passants
He shot rapid and
- des regards rapides et insistants
insistent glances at the passers-by
NB: A plural noun might be modified by a string of singular adjectives, depending on the meaning: Les économies russe, bulgare et roumaine rencontrent de graves difficultés 'The Russian, Bulgarian and Romanian economies are (each) encountering serious difficulties'.