Good and bad experiences: feminine adjective agreement
Learning outcomes
I know how to make adjectives feminine, in order to accurately describe and compare masculine and feminine nouns.
I know that [om] and [on] can be nasal or oral sounds depending on whether they come before a consonant or a vowel.
Good and bad experiences: feminine adjective agreement
Learning outcomes
I know how to make adjectives feminine, in order to accurately describe and compare masculine and feminine nouns.
I know that [om] and [on] can be nasal or oral sounds depending on whether they come before a consonant or a vowel.
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Key learning points
- The SSCs [om] and [on] are nasal sounds. Before a consonant they have the same nasal sound, like in ‘bombe’ and 'monde'.
- Before a vowel the 'm' and 'n' are pronounced, like in 'omelette' and 'monotone'. They are different oral sounds.
- In French, the ending of an adjective matches the noun it describes. This is called adjective agreement.
- There are various ways to make an adjective feminine, including adding an -e and changing -eur to -euse.
- Some short masculine adjectives ending in -n, -l or -s double the last letter before adding -e, e.g. gentil, gentille.
Keywords
[om] - sound-symbol correspondence pronounced as in 'nom', a nasal sound
[on] - sound-symbol correspondence pronounced as in 'non', a nasal sound
Adjective agreement - when the ending of an adjective matches the noun it describes in gender and number
Common misconception
The SSCs [om] and [on] always sound the same.
When [om] or [on] appear at the end of a word or before a consonant, they have a nasal sound and are pronounced the same. However, before a vowel their sounds are oral, the 'm' and 'n' are pronounced more clearly, making these SSCs sound different.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
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dangerous
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safe
thin
to want to
to have to
to know (how to)
to be able to
Exit quiz
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mauvais
pire
ennuyeux
moins
petit
stupide