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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 |
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- 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