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Vocabulary
Objective: Alter structural adjective spellings to maintain strict gender agreement with their target nouns.
| Masculine | Feminine | English |
|---|---|---|
| rouge | rouge | red |
| bleu | bleue | blue |
| vert | verte | green |
| noir | noire | black |
| blanc | blanche | white |
| gris | grise | grey |
| jaune | jaune | yellow |
| violet | violette | purple |
The color adjective agrees with the feminine noun voiture, so bleu takes the feminine -e ending.
The plural feminine noun maisons requires the plural feminine form vertes, with both the -e and the -s.
Rouge already ends in -e, so it stays the same in both masculine and feminine singular.
Chemise is feminine, so bleu takes the feminine -e, producing bleue.
Feuilles is feminine plural, so vert takes both the -e and the -s, producing vertes.
Marron comes from the nut and stays invariable, so it takes no -s even though yeux is plural.
Noir follows the masculine singular noun chat. Colors appear after the noun in French.
5 exercises · about 8 minutes
Colors derived from nouns stay invariable, so orange never takes -e or -s regardless of the noun it describes.
Most French adjectives follow the noun, so rouge appears after livre rather than before it.
Blanc becomes blancs in the masculine plural, adding the -s without changing the c.
Grande precedes the noun because it is a size adjective. Blanche follows the noun because it is a color.
Orange stays invariable. Noires agrees with the feminine plural noun chaussures.