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Fifteen centimeters under your feet, a big sun like this, and yet nothing stirring! Caption 1, Le Journal: Un automne bien chaud. Notice that the short and common adjective gros big this time follows the noun soleil sun to emphasize how exceptionally large the sun seems to be on an unusually warm autumn day.
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The sun, the sea, and the words of love: What are you waiting for? Check out the videos! Adverbs are words that describe how something is done. They can modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. In a previous lesson , we saw what happens when adverbs and adjectives get cozy with each other in the same sentence.
Now we'll explore what happens when they get even cozier—when an adverb is formed from an adjective. In English, adverbs often end in -ly: Likewise, many French adverbs end in -ment: A little treasure of coherency, charm, and lightness in which the wearer easily loses twenty years. Caption 2, Le Journal: So what's the one thing that English -ly adverbs and French - ment adverbs have in common? You guessed it—they all come from adjectives!
However, this formula is a bit more complicated in French than in English. Facilement and confortablement can be neatly broken down into their separate components: But why do we have malheureusement and not " malheureuxment "? Malheureux is the masculine form of malheureuse.
French has a small set of rules for determining how to turn an adjective into an adverb. Once you learn them, you'll be able to spot the adverbs in any sentence effortlessly.
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If the adjective ends in a vowel , simply add - ment. Other common examples include:. If the adjective ends in a consonant , add - ment to the feminine form of the adjective. If the adjective ends in - ant or - ent , replace the ending with - amment or - emment , respectively. Although there are a few exceptions here and there, these are the basic rules for creating adverbs from adjectives in French.
You can find a thorough list of these exceptions in this about. The one simple guideline underlying all three of these rules which has no exceptions! So if you keep at least that in mind when constructing your adverbs, you should succeed brillamment! You may have heard that most of the time, an adjective in French is placed after the noun. How are we supposed to know?
We find plenty of clues and start to gain an intuitive understanding when we watch authentic French videos. Let's have a look at a few instances when the adjective almost always follows the noun it modifies: Let's have a look at shapes and colors first. This is evident in our video about "green tides" in Brittany: Caption 3, Le Journal: Colors follow the same pattern. Listen to master chef Daniel Boulud describing what goes into his extremely high-end hamburgers:. Caption 9, Le Journal: Like most Frenchmen, M. Boulud loves his vin rouge red wine. Note that he puts the color "red," rouge , after the noun "wine," vin , not the other way around.
Because another instance when adjectives pretty much always come after the noun in French is when the adjective is indicating origin, nationality, or ethnicity. Egypt, an Arab and Muslim country, could well be the next guest of honor of the Book Fair. In a similar vein, you'll see the same placement, after the noun, for an adjective describing an official function: So there we have it: Laurence Boccolini, the beloved rich and famous French host of TV Channel 2, should be a happy woman.
Quite the contrary, malheureusement. But she's a deeply wounded woman, because she hasn't been able to create a life. Indeed, that is the typical pattern; in most cases, when an adverb modifies an adjective that is qualifying a noun, the adverb-adjective pair will appear after the noun. Let's take another look, this time at an, ahem, somewhat happier example.
Someone who was not concerned with fertility problems was the famous poet Victor Hugo. He conceived five children. For those interested in learning about more than just the literary side of Victor Hugo, the singer Bertrand Pierre clues us in to some of the poet's other "talents" in this Yabla exclusive interview:. Caption 30, Bertrand Pierre: Take a look at the order of the words. It might help to think of the words like building blocks. Since you are talking about his romantic and sexual life, you add the building blocks sentimentale and sexuelle.
In English, these blocks go before the noun; in French, they go after. Now, what kind of romantic, sexual life did he have? Well, a rather overactive one! If only it were so simple. In fact, the Bertrand Pierre example above is an interesting case. Bertrand could actually also have said: You can see an example of this "before" placement in the beautiful Le Journal video about Easter Island—a video that may be as beautiful as the native French Riviera that Michel Garcia left twenty-eight years ago:. You realize that France is a very beautiful country and that life is very good there.
Caption 33, Le Journal: This diver who appreciates the beauty of both countries could have easily said, and would have been equally correct to say: To wrap up our series of lessons on adjectives, we want to show you a few examples of multiple adjectives qualifying the same noun. Native speakers of a language know instinctively how to order multiple adjectives.
For example, Anglophones know that we say a "big old black truck" rather than "black big old truck. It's not exactly "wrong" to say "black big old truck"; it just doesn't sound quite as good—don't you agree? We won't delve into too many nitty-gritty details governing multiple-adjective order today. We'll leave that to the linguistics PhDs. Since, to most of us, it's simply a matter of what sounds good, we thought we'd give you a sense of what sounds good in French by taking a look at some examples and offering you a few simple pieces of advice.
Let's start out where many lessons do: In French, the teacher at the front of the room will write on un grand tableau noir a big blackboard —ordered this way because we say: Adjectives like grand are explained in this lesson , and color adjectives are explained in this lesson. Ready for some more examples?
Off we go to the land of fashion. Notice how each adjective takes its usual place in this phrase. The adjective petite which, like grand , is discussed here comes before the noun robe.
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It turns out that fameuse is also an adjective that tends to come before the noun in French. And color, as we established in our blackboard example, comes after the noun. So, we place each adjective in its proper place and we get fameuse petite robe noire. Of course, sometimes you'll see multiple adjectives on just one one side of a noun either before or after. Take a look at the story of little Morgane, who was, at two pounds, a greatly premature baby who grew up to be a perfectly healthy and cheery child. At four years old, Morgane is a happy and playful child without any health problem.
Here the two adjectives describe the same type of quality—the little girl's pleasant disposition—so the conjunction et and is appropriately positioned between them. And, of course, both adjectives come after the noun they qualify, as they would if they were used alone: We say une enfant gaie happy and we also say une enfant vive "playful" or "vivacious". Perhaps this is just common sense, but when you have a common expression in French that's made up of an adjective-noun combo, and is then modified by another adjective, keep that common expression together.
And as newlyweds typically come in pairs, we see this expression quantified by the numerical adjective deux two , which, because it is a number, appears in front of the noun phrase, as seen in this lesson. Here's a final point to leave you with, and perhaps the most important thing to take away from our series of adjective lessons. As is wisely written in one of Pierre Larousse 's famous language books:.
Keep taking your daily dose of Yabla video vitamins and you'll get more and more of that native-speaker sense of how to season your phrases with multiple adjectives! In this lesson, we're going to discuss a somewhat tricky aspect of French color words. Like the vast majority of adjectives, most French color words agree in gender masculine or feminine and number singular or plural with the noun they modify. However, certain color adjectives are invariable—that is, they never change regardless of the gender and number of the noun. All of these adjectives are derived from nouns.
Look at these dogs. There's another word for "chestnut" too! Some other invariable color adjectives are: There's one more instance of invariability you should be aware of when dealing with color words. When you use more than one adjective to designate a single color like "light blue," "dark green," etc.
As you may have noticed, like many other adjectives, color adjectives always follow the noun in French. In Le Journal 's video on chalets, we're treated to a fascinating description of a modern cabin entirely built of ancient wood. And speaking of modernity, the speaker's story includes quite a few instances of neuf and nouveau. Both adjectives mean "new," but each corresponds to a different meaning of the word "new.
Before we talk about the trick to distinguishing between neuf and nouveau , we should point out the feminine forms, which are irregular, of each adjective: Aujourd'hui Michel Ferrari lui redonne une nouvelle vie. This log was cut more than two hundred years ago. Today, MichelFerrari gives it back a new life. Here, nouvelle vie denotes a life different from before.
Notice that the qualifying adjective nouvelle precedes the noun vie. Caption 14, Le Journal: Again, the adjective here indicates a change; the list of suppliers is now different from the previous one. And, once again, the adjective nouveaux is placed before the substantive fournisseurs. Now, the following captions give us some examples of an entirely different meaning of "new. Notice that neuf is placed after the substantive bois.
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Caption 12, Le Journal: The speaker is talking about the recent construction of these houses. And note that neuf is a substantive here: Want some more examples of objects with which you could use neuf? You could have un manteau neuf a new coat or un livre neuf a new book. And don't forget about the ironically named Pont-Neuf, which is actually the oldest bridge in Paris!
And what other types of changes would you describe with the word nouveau? If you look at all the examples above, you'll see that neuf is used for recent creations: La Nouvelle Vague is the name of the post-WWII cinematic trend in France of shooting movies in a different, more realistic way and using modern, spontaneous young actors rather than handsome, classical movie stars.
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