--- title: Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing», a lesson of the french course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A small group of short, everyday ones go in front, and the trick BAGS helps you remember them: Beauty (beau, joli), Age (jeune, vi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing # Adjectives: after the noun, and agreeing Lesson 27 of the french course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/1/) — A small group of short, everyday ones go in front, and the trick BAGS helps you remember them: Beauty (beau, joli), Age (jeune, vieux, nouveau), Goodness (bon, mauvais) and Size (petit, grand, gros). - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/2/) — Describing words also change to match their noun, like a chameleon changing colour: add -e for a feminine word and -s for a plural one - un chat noir, une souris noire, des chats noirs. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/3/) — Sometimes the change is loud: petit sounds "puh-TEE", but petite sounds "puh-TEET", because the e wakes up the t; and a few words change a lot, like beau into belle. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/4/) — Picture describing your family to a penpal: "Mon frère est petit, ma sœur est petite, et nos chiens sont très gentils" - every describing word dresses to match. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/5/) — Most adjectives go after the noun: un chien noir. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/6/) — BAGS adjectives go before: Beauty, Age, Goodness and Size, such as beau, joli, jeune, vieux, nouveau, bon, mauvais, petit, grand and gros. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/7/) — Adding -e for feminine often makes the last consonant heard: petit ("puh-TEE") becomes petite ("puh-TEET"); grand and grande, vert and verte work the same way. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/8/) — A size word goes before the noun and still agrees: une grande maison. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/9/) — Some adjectives change a lot: beau and belle (beautiful), nouveau and nouvelle (new), vieux and vieille (old). - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/10/) — Adjectives agree in gender and number: noir, noire, noirs, noires, and all four sound the same. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/11/) — Adjectives ending in -eux become -euse in the feminine: heureux and heureuse (happy), sérieux and sérieuse. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/12/) — Some adjectives double their last letter before adding e: gros and grosse, bon and bonne, gentil and gentille. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/13/) — Nationality and colour adjectives go after the noun, and nationalities are written with a small letter: un garçon français, une fille anglaise. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/14/) — Adjectives agree even after est: il est petit, elle est petite. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/15/) — A noun keeps its gender every time: une pomme verte et une pomme rouge. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/16/) — Très means very and goes before the adjective: très bon, très grand, très joli. - ← previous: [Plurals: les, des and silent s](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/) - next →: [Être: to be](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/28-etre-to-be/) - ↑ back to [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/)