Yabla French
Sorry! Search is currently unavailable while the database is being updated, it will be back in 5 mins!
28 lessons found

Adjectives Used as Adverbs

Yabla lesson, you learned how to turn adjectives into adverbs. But what about adjectives that...

Six Changing Adjectives

We’ve dealt with adjectives a lot in previous Yabla lessons, and in...

Making Adverbs from Adjectives

something is done. They can modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. In a previous lesson,...

Forward-Thinking Adjectives

Caption   By now, you're probably used to adjectives in French following the nouns that they...

When Adverbs Get Cozy with Adjectives

activity" in English), being modified by two adjectives: sentimentale (romantic) and sexuelle (sexual). Then that...

Adjectives from Names and Verbs

Adjectives derived from verbs    Cet astronaute expérimenté a...

Adjectives of Color, Shape, and Origin

français rock. Why? Because another instance when adjectives pretty much always come after the noun...

Fort as a Noun, Adjective, and Adverb

an adverb? In our previous lesson on adjectives used as adverbs, we learned that fort...

Agreeing with On

people,” it usually does not trigger agreement with adjectives or past participles. In other words, it...

Tout as an Adverb

noun, and we learned that tout, like all adjectives, agrees in gender and number with the...

The X Factor

Dangerous.   So, look out for nouns (sometimes adjectives) starting with a vowel. It is a...

What’s in a Day? - Un Jour vs. Une Journée

It makes sense to use jours with adjectives of quantity like plusieurs (several) and tous...

Present Participles Part 2 - Le Gérondif

can be used as verbs or as adjectives. In this lesson, we’ll focus on present...

Present Participles

of fatiguant. Only verbs take direct objects, not adjectives.    If we were to rewrite the sentence...

It All Sounds the Same to Me! - A Lesson on Homophones

As you probably know, vert, like most adjectives, takes on masculine, feminine, and plural endings....

Words for Good and Bad

well" and "badly/poorly") but different functions.  Bon/bonne and mauvais/mauvaise are adjectives, which means they change according to the...

Unchanging Colors

color words. Like the vast majority of adjectives, most French color words agree in gender...

Cette leçon est à vous!

French. Though she mainly focuses on possessive adjectives (which correspond to "my," "your," "his/her," etc.)...

When "Good" Means "Right" and "Bad" Means "Wrong"

of translation. Bon/bonne and mauvais/mauvaise are two of the most basic adjectives in French. They usually mean "good" and...

Terrible or Terrific?

The answer will help you decipher the adjective's meaning: when terrible comes before the noun,...

Less Is More with "Moins"

adverb of comparison, and can modify both adjectives and nouns. When it modifies an adjective,...

Five Ways of Saying "Only"

ways of saying it in French: the adjectives seul(e) and unique, the adverb seulement and...

Three "Faux Amis"

of an adjective plus -ment, and their adjectives are also false cognates: actuel(le) means "current"...

Pas de Deux

wrap up our series of lessons on adjectives, we want to show you a few...
12