While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, came to drop grammatical gender. The table below lists the main families of adjectives in French; while there are certain exceptions that need to be learned individually, the groups below illustrate how to decline most French adjectives in their different forms. French are not difficult to master; however the small difference between the comparative form and the superlative form can sometimes cause confusion. French would be the mirror image of the order of the equivalent adjectives in an English sentence .Sadly the world is not as simple as this, and as we have seen adjectives in French often come before the noun. Yet the principle remains valid. English, people didn’t call it that back then, but in French it must agree in number (singular or plural) and in gender (masculine or feminine) with the noun that it is describing. Proto-Indo-European (well, the adjective doesn’t change, but we do now). It’s believed that PIE originally made distinctions between nouns that were animate and inanimate. This is because French possessive adjectives relate to the noun, and every noun has a gender. French teachers and fellow French speakers will tell you that there’s no rhyme or reason to whether a noun is masculine or feminine. Since the feminine possessive adjectives (ma, ta, sa) end in vowels, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. PIE after a long saga of evolution, it would be quite awkward to have to say a word beginning with a vowel right afterwards.
