French Adjectives and Adverbs Overview

This is the French Adjectives and Adverbs Overview.

The French adjectives and adverbs are ordered according to the CEFR level scale.

What Are Adjectives and Adverbs?

In general, adjectives are words that modify nouns. 

In the sentence “The big man.”, the word “big” is an adjective.

Anytime that you can put “am” or “is” in front of a word, you are dealing with an adjective.

In general. adverbs are words that modify verbs.

In the sentence “He walks slowly.” the word “slowly is an adverb.

A lot of adverbs end with “-ly”.

Learning Path

In A0/A1 you will learn the fundamentals of French adjectives and adverbs.

In A1 you will learn about the beginner’s principles of French adjectives and adverbs.

In A2 you will learn about the elementary principles of French adjectives and adverbs.

In B1 you will learn about the intermediate principles of French adjectives and adverbs.

In B2 you will learn about the upper intermediate principles of French adjectives and adverbs.

French a0/a1: Adjectives and Adverbs

Adjectives that go before a noun

How to make an adjective feminine

How to make adjectives plural

French a1: Adjectives and Adverbs

Irregular feminine adjectives

Possessive Adjectives

Using ‘de’ for possession

Adjectives after c’est are masculine

Adjectives and Colour

How to form adverbs

French a2: ADjectives and ADverbs

How to make comparisons with adverbs

How to make comparisons with adjectives

How to form the superlative of adverbs

How to form the superlative of verbs

Irregular (feminine) adjectives

ce/cet/cette and ces

[this/that and these/those]

How to position adverbs

The 7 most important irregular adverbs

French B1: Adjectives and adverbs

ancien

[former/old]

 

certain

[sure/specific]

 

tous les + (duration)/ chaque

[every/each]

 

cher

[expensive/dear]

 

dernier

[previous/final]

même

[very/exact/itself/precise/even]

propre

[clean/own]

Superlatives of Adjectives

French B2: Adjectives and adverbs

Ce, cet, cette, ces [duration] -là / -ci 

[that/those and this/these (duration)]