Comparisons, Adjectives & Adverbs

Comparing things, adjective position and agreement, adverb formation.

• French Adjective Agreement: Matching Gender and Number

  French adjectives are like mirrors; they must always reflect the gender and number of the noun they describe.
• French Adverb Position (La place des adverbes)

  In French, adverbs stick to the verb like glue, usually following it immediately or splitting compound forms.
• French Comparatives: Better, Faster, More (Plus, Moins, Aussi)

  Create comparisons using plus/moins/aussi + adjective + que, ensuring the adjective matches the first subject's gender and number.
• French Irregular Comparatives: Better & Best (Meilleur vs. Mieux)

  Replace 'plus bon' with 'meilleur' for things and 'plus bien' with 'mieux' for actions.
• Beautiful, New, and Old: The Irregular Trio (Beau, Nouveau, Vieux)

  Use bel, nouvel, and vieil for masculine singular nouns starting with a vowel to keep the flow smooth.
• Better & Best: Irregular Comparatives (meilleur vs mieux)

  Replace 'plus bon' with 'meilleur' for things and 'plus bien' with 'mieux' for actions.
• French Irregular Adverbs: Beyond '-ment' (bien, mieux, mal)

  Irregular adverbs like bien, mal, and mieux are essential for describing actions naturally in everyday French conversation.
• The Best and The Least: French Superlatives (Le Plus, Le Moins)

  Superlatives identify the extreme by adding a gender-matching definite article before 'plus' or 'moins' and the adjective.
• French Adjective Position: The BAGS Rule (un petit chat)

  Place adjectives for Beauty, Age, Goodness, and Size before the noun; put almost everything else after it.
• French Adverbs: Turning Adjectives into Actions (-ment)

  Build adverbs by adding -ment to the feminine adjective form to describe how actions are performed.
• French Comparisons: More, Less, and As (plus, moins, aussi)

  Sandwich your adjective between plus, moins, or aussi and que to compare two things in French.