Les adjectifs de personnalité - Learn a few new adjectives describing one's personality. We use adjectives all the time every single day. These words are extremely important to be able to distinguish things. The following is a simple explanation of what an adjective is - a description and a clarification of a noun, an object, etc. Today, we'll be concentrating further on adjectives that describe a personality.
Le garçon est...
heureux - happy
triste - sad
silencieux - quiet
intelligent - intelligent
calme - calm
gentil - nice
poli - polite
réfléchi - thoughtful
modeste - modest
flexible - flexible
bavard - talkative
exigeant - demanding
jaloux - jealous
mature - mature
La fille est...
heureuse - happy
triste - sad
silencieuse - quiet
intelligente - intelligent
calme - calm
gentille - nice
polie - polite
réfléchie - thoughtful
modeste - modest
flexible - flexible
bavarde - talkative
exigeante - demanding
jalouse - jealous
mature - mature
As we can see from the examples above, some adjectives change according to whether it's male or female but others remain exactly the same. Similarly, there would be changes if we're talking about more than one person. The following are some examples for both singular and plural:
- Le fils de Marie est très gentil, mais la fille est plus silencieuse.
- Martin et Luc sont polis mais assez exigeants.
- Mes sœurs sont très bavardes.
These are just a few that we commonly use when describing someone's personality. There are obviously various more which you can find in the worksheet below. Go ahead and click the link below to download today's worksheet and practice some more to reiterate these adjectives we've just learnt and have a look at some others as well.
