BIEN UTILISER LES ADJECTIFS EN FRANCE
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0:00 Depending on each case the adjectives are placed either BEFORE or AFTER the nouns they qualify.
0:11 Usually those placed BEFORE the noun are short adjectives. We shall then say "good bread " but "un pain excellent".
0:27 Numeral adjectives are placed as well BEFORE the noun. The three musqueteers. The first edition.
Conversely long adjectives are placed AFTER the noun even more so if it is as well a long noun. "Une expérience inoubliable" "Un profit colossal"
0:58 Equally posterior are the color adjectives. "Un taxi mauve" "Un éventail rouge"
0:09 As well as past participles used as adjectives. "A nervous horse" "A botched up job"
0:20 It goes the same with adjectives introducing a complement. "A tiger as quick as lightning" "An adventure full of developments".
0:30 These rules are neither exhaustive nor immutable