 | Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - 1828 - 466 pages
...celle qui volontaire. AGREEMENT OF THE ADJECTIVE WITH THE SUBSTANTIVE. RULE I. The adjective always agrees in gender and number with the substantive to which it relates. EXAMPLES. Lebonpere, . The good father. La bonne mere, . Thegood mother. De beaux jardim. Fine gardens.... | |
 | Joseph F. A. Bœuf - 1832 - 404 pages
...has either the sense of a verb, or that of an adjective. It is invariable when used a? a verb, but agrees in gender and number with the substantive to which it relates, when used as an adjective. It forms its feminine by the addition of a mute e, and its plural by s.... | |
 | Philippe Louis Neveux - 1833 - 282 pages
...generally to express a quality or the state of persons and things. In French, the adjective always agrees in gender and number with the substantive to which it relates : As — un homme prudent, a prudent man ; une femme prudente, a prudent woman ; des chevaux blancs, white horses;... | |
 | Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - 1833 - 476 pages
...ceUegui Volonlaire. AGREEMENT OF THE ADJECTIVE WITH THE SUBSTAlfTIVE. RULE I. The adjective always agrees in gender and number with the substantive to which it relates. EXAMPLES. Lt ion pert, The good father. La bonne mire, The good mother. De beaux janlint. Fine gardens.... | |
 | Jean Pons victor Lecoutz de Levizac (d.1) - 1834 - 494 pages
...sied ni a art m. ni a art characters. caractere m. 120. GENERAL RUIE. In French, the article always agrees in gender and number with the substantive to which it relates. EXAMPLES. Le livre queje cherche, The book which I am looking for, liaifemme gue je vois, The woman... | |
 | Charles Jean Delille - 1837 - 98 pages
...expresses the quality of a substantive or noun. EXAMPLE. Un honnête homme, an honest man. In French an adjective agrees in gender and number with the substantive to which it relates. EXAMPLE. Bon travail, good work. Bons enfants, good children. Bonne espérance, good Bonnes choses,... | |
 | Charles Constant Le Tellier - 1839 - 340 pages
...used without any tense of the auxiliary verbs avoir or être, may be considered as an adjective, and agrees in gender and number with the substantive to which it relates. EXAMPLES. Un ouvrage achevé, a work finished, des outrages achevés. Une maison achevée, a house... | |
 | P. Droz - 1842 - 262 pages
...dentelle at-elle What lace has she achetée 9 bought ? (d) Lequel, laquelle, (which) implies a choice, and agrees in gender and number with the substantive to which it relates. Lequel de ces deux livres Which of these two books voulez-vous ? will you have ? Lesquelles de ces... | |
 | Charles Jean Delille - 1844 - 476 pages
...homme prudent, A prudent man. Un bel arbre, A fine tree. Un bon père, A good father. 56. In French, the adjective agrees in gender and number with the substantive to which it relates ; as, Un homme éloquent, An eloquent man. Une femme éloquente, An eloquent woman. Des hommes éloquents, Eloquent... | |
 | Désiré Pontet - 1844 - 286 pages
...person or thing already mentioned. In the former sense, autre is always masculine ; in the latter, it agrees in gender and number with the substantive to which it relates. When OTHERS is preceded by the preposition TO, or OF, it is most commonly expressed hy autrui, which... | |
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The adjective agrees in gender and number with, the substantive, to which it relates : as, un beau chien, a fine dog ; une maison blanche, a white house ; deux chevaux noirs, two black horses. 
