French Notes

masculine singular	masculine singular, starts with a vowel	masculine plural	feminine singular	feminine plural
beau	bel	beaux	belle	belles
nouveau	nouvel	nouveaux	nouvelle	nouvelles
blanc	blanc	blancs	blanche	blanches
bon	bon	bons	bonne	bonnes
heureux*	heureux	heureux	heureuse	heureuses
vieux	vieil	vieux	vieille	vieilles
tropical*	tropical	tropicaux	tropicale	tropicales
premier*	premier	premiers	première	premières

handsome / beautiful – beau / belle
new – nouveau

eux ending

happy – heureux
unhappy – malheureux
serious – sérieux
curious – curieux
nervous – nerveux
delicious – délicieux
wonderful – merveilleux

al ending

tropical – tropical
international – international
main, principal – principal
general – general
special – spécial
original – original

er ending

first – premier
last – dernier
entire – entier
dear – cher

Other Irregular Adjective Patterns

*adjectives ending in il, el, en, on, as, os, and sot double the last consonant

cruel > cruelle
gentil > gentille
ancien > ancienne
mignon > mignonne
nul > nulle
gros > grosse

*adjectives ending in f change to ve

destructif > destructive
actif > active

*adjectives ending in teur change to trice
protecteur > protectrice
créateur > créatrice

§ 6 Responses to Irregular Adjective Chart and Vocabulary

• Unknown Unknown says:

  February 18, 2017 at 5:02 pm

  Is “Artistic” an irregular adjective?

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  • tiffany endres says:

    February 20, 2017 at 1:41 am

    Artistic is “artistique” in French. But other adjectives ending in “ic”, like “public / publique”, change to “ique” ending in feminine. Thanks for the question.

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• Unknown says:

  January 20, 2018 at 1:22 am

  when it gets to the part about doubling the last consonant, in the example it has an e at the end. Is that because its feminin? If so what would it be if it’s masculin?

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  • tiffany endres says:

    January 20, 2018 at 1:48 am

    To make those adjectives masculine plural, just add an S. Example gentil/gentils/gentille/gentilles

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• Bob says:

  May 6, 2018 at 11:34 pm

  I have a question, why do you not add an s when conjugating “gros” to masculine plural? Because everytime you congugate an adjective to masculine plural you add an s but why not in this case? For example is it wrong if you say “Ils sont gross”? I need to know if it still is corrrect to use gross in this case or something else.

  Thanks,

  Bob

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  • tiffany endres says:

    May 9, 2018 at 11:25 pm

    You don’t add the s for masculine plural, when it already ends in s. Masculine plural of gros is still gros.

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