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Je
suis français,
Je suis française |
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Vous êtes
française? Non, je suis anglaise.
Are you
French? No, I am English (woman).
Vous êtes
français? Non, je suis allemand.
Are you
French? No, I am German (man).
| je suis |
man |
woman |
| français |
française |
| anglais
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anglaise |
| italien
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italienne |
| allemand
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allemande |
Adjectives of nationality
in French agree with the noun they qualify.
For most adjectives of nationality, you create the feminine form by sounding
the last consonant of the masculine form. In written French, this is indicated
by an e at the end of the word.
eg: je suis anglais (man), je suis
anglaise (woman)
Note that:
- the ending is -nne in the feminine for the following
nationalities:
je suis italien
(man), je suis italienne (woman)
je suis
algérien (man), je suis
algérienne (woman)
- adjectives of
nationality are written without a capital, whereas nouns (ie. a Frenchman, a
Frenchwoman, an Italian) have the same form but are written with a capital
letter.
eg: Sylvie Clément est une Française de
Londres.
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