Grammar: Adjectives - Demonstrative and Interrogative

Grammar: Adjectives - Demonstrative and Interrogative

Section: Demonstrative Adjectives

• Demonstrative adjectives indicate specific things or people and they must agree in gender and number with the noun they come before.

• The most common ones to revise are ce (this, masculine singular), cette (this, feminine singular), cet (this, masculine singular before a vowel or silent h) and ces (these, plural).

• If you need to distinguish between “this” or “that” and “these” or “those”, you can add “-ci” (here) and “-là” (there) to the noun. For example, cet homme-ci signifies this man here and cet homme-là signifies that man there.

Section: Interrogative Adjectives

• Interrogative adjectives are used to ask questions. They must agree in gender and number with the noun they are related to.

• The most common ones to revise are quel (masculine singular), quelle (feminine singular), quels (masculine plural), and quelles (feminine plural). Example: Quel livre? translates to Which book?.

• When using an interrogative adjective in a question, the construction usually follows this order: interrogative adjective + noun + verb. Example: Quels livres lisez-vous? translates to Which books are you reading?.