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Friends: adjective agreement and position
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Describing your friends is a favourite exam topic. The trick is making every adjective agree with the person you describe.
Friends and personality
un ami / une amie (a friend), un copain / une copine (a mate), mon meilleur ami / ma meilleure amie (my best friend).
Useful adjectives: amusant (funny), sympa (nice, kind), travailleur (hard-working), patient (patient), sportif (sporty), heureux (happy), sérieux (serious), fidèle (loyal, Higher).
Useful adjectives: amusant (funny), sympa (nice, kind), travailleur (hard-working), patient (patient), sportif (sporty), heureux (happy), sérieux (serious), fidèle (loyal, Higher).
Agreement patterns
Position and emphatic pronouns
Most adjectives go after the noun: un ami amusant.
A few short common ones go before: bon, grand, petit, nouveau, jeune, beau, vieux, dernier. Un bon ami. Une nouvelle copine.
After a preposition use moi or toi: avec moi (with me), pour toi (for you), chez moi (at my house).
A few short common ones go before: bon, grand, petit, nouveau, jeune, beau, vieux, dernier. Un bon ami. Une nouvelle copine.
After a preposition use moi or toi: avec moi (with me), pour toi (for you), chez moi (at my house).
Translate: My friends (boys) are serious and sporty.
- My friends: mes amis (plural).
- serious: sérieux ends in -x, so it does not change in the plural.
- sporty: sportif + s = sportifs.
Answer: Mes amis sont sérieux et sportifs.
Adjectives agree: add -e for feminine and -s for plural, with patterns like -x to -se and -f to -ve. Most go after the noun; bon, grand, petit, nouveau, beau go before. Use moi and toi after prepositions.
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