📖LearnModule 3 · Lesson 11 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2, first halfUnit 3 · Agreement in earnest, and comparing
The agreement rules, formalized
Module 3 of the free French course (CEFR A2, first half), lesson 11 of 30: Module 1 showed you grand/grande. On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's lesson 11.
The words
French
English
Say it
jeune
young
zhuhn
facile
easy (m and f)
fah-SEEL
difficile
difficult
dee-fee-SEEL
joli
pretty (m)
zhoh-LEE
jolie
pretty (f)
zhoh-LEE
fort
strong (m)
for
forte
strong (f)
fort
les petites souris
the small mice
lay puh-teet soo-REE
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
Hear the words
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
La règle · The rule
Module 1 showed you grand/grande. The full system: add -e for feminine (unless the word already ends in -e), add -s for plural. Four forms: petit, petite, petits, petites.
Et aussi · And also
The -e wakes the silent consonant (puh-TEE / puh-TEET); the -s stays silent. Adjectives already ending in -e serve both genders: jeune, facile, rouge.
Attention · Watch out
An adjective already ending in -e takes no second e in the feminine: jeune, facile and rouge serve both genders as they are.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with jeune.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 11 in Module 3 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The French Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.