Pluriel

- IT IS NOT DIFFICULT TO LEARN HOW TO TRANSLATE FRENCH WORDS TO PLURAL FORM. - AS IN ANY OTHER LANGUAGE, YOU MUST LEARN SOME BASIC RULES, AS WELL AS THE EXCEPTIONS

In the French language nouns can be masculine or feminine,SINGLUAR or PLURAL. Nouns usually must agree in gender le genre as well as number le nombre.

Le pluriel is used when referring to more than one thing or person. There are plural nouns 

1) Noms, 2) pronouns (pronoms) 3) articles (articles) 4) adjectives (adjectifs)

The singular masculin article is le, the singular feminine article is la. The plural of both is les.

The singular pronouns are je (I), tu (you), il(he) and elle (she). The plural pronouns are:

vous (you)

nous (we)

ils(they, masculine) elles(they, feminine)

PLURAL OF ADJECTIVES AND NOUNS

In general, in order to form the plural you add an s to all words except words that already end in s, x, or z in their singular form.

Regular Adjectives and Nouns

Singular Plural

la carte(the card) Les cartes

Petite(small) petites

le vers(the verse) le vers

malheureux(unhappy) malheureux

le nez(the nose) les nez

IRREGULAR PLURALS

Some French words require that you change the ending completely.

(aux and x endings)*Some words that end in al become aux in the plural

formSingular Plural

Journal journaux

Animal animaux

royal royaux

spécial spéciaux

radical radicaux

EXCEPTIONS:

There are some exceptions to this rule. The following are examples of words that end in al but take an s:

bal(s) banal(s) festival(s) banal(s) final(s)

Some words that end in ail become aux in the plural form. For example travail (work) becomes travaux. On the other hand other words that end in ail take an s such as détail (detail) which becomes détails.

Words with the following endings take x instead of s when they become plural:

bijou becomes bijoux (jewerly) rideau becomes rideaux (curtains) neveu becomes neveux(nephews) noyau becomes noyaux(stones, pits)The exceptions are bleu(s) (blue)

and pneux(s)(tire)

EXTREMELY IRREGULAR PLURALS

Some words are very irregular but are then easy to memorize:

oeil (eye) becomes yeux ciel (sky) becomes cieux monsieur becomes messieurs madame becomes mesdames mademoiselle becomes mesdemoiselles