 | Arnaud Texier de La Pommeraye - 1822 - 272 pages
...which before their substantives have quite another meaning than when placed after them, for example: Un homme grand, a tall man, un grand homme, a great man; un pauvre homme, a sorry fellow; un homme ton, a good natured man; un homme brave, a brave man; un... | |
 | H. Thompson - 1829
...needful. The signification of an adjective is sometimes changed when preceding or following a noun, as, un homme grand, a tall man, un grand homme, a great man. PRONOUNS. Personal pronouns, when in the accusative case, are not placed after the verb in French,... | |
 | C. W. E. Kirk-Greene - 1981 - 197 pages
...Grease, or fat. grand Tall, big, large (but note il ouvre de grands yeux: he opens his eyes wide). Un homme grand: a tall man, un grand homme: a great man. Occasionally means 'grand' (Le Grand Hotel: Grand Hotel), but 'it's a grand hotel': c'est un hotel... | |
 | Christopher Kendris - 1996 - 483 pages
...beau, bon, chaque, gros, jeune, joli, long, mauvais, petit, plusieurs, vieux, and grand (exception: un homme grand, a tall man; un grand homme, a great man). 3. Adjectives must agree in gender and number with the nouns they modify. B. Formation of masculine... | |
 | Marie-Rose Carré - 2001 - 465 pages
...has its practical proper meaning. • Placed before the noun, the adjective has a figurative meaning. un homme grand -a tall man un grand homme - a great man un batiment ancien - an old building un ancien ami - a former friend Adjectives with two different... | |
 | Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Ada Hodges, David S. Rood - 2005 - 430 pages
...of an (otherwise postposed) adjective changes its meaning from a descriptive to an evaluative one: un homme grand ('a tall man'), un grand homme ('a great man'). In Nelemwa, according to the general rules of the language that apply to numerals too, the meaning... | |
 | Christopher Kendris, Theodore Kendris - 2006 - 451 pages
...beau, bon, chaque, gros, jeune, joli, long, mauvais, petit, plusieurs, vieux, and grand (exception: un homme grand, a tall man; un grand homme, a great man). 3. Adjectives must agree in gender and number with the nouns they modify. B. Formation of masculine... | |
 | Christopher Kendris, Theodore Kendris - 2007 - 620 pages
...beau, bon, chaque, gros, jeune, joli, long, mauvais, petit, plusieurs, vieux, and grand (exception: un homme grand, a tall man; un grand homme, a great man). 3. Adjectives must agree in gender and number with the nouns they modify. B. Formation of masculine... | |
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Adjectives which change their signification according as they are placed before or after the noun. Bon. Un homme bon, a good man ; un bon homme, a simple man ; un bon mot, a pun; une bonne parole, a good word. Brave. Un homme brave, a brave man; un brave... 