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It's a strange choice to choose the french language as a example over this matter when it's even worse. Adjectives can be placed in front or after a word and y
by lelag 12y ago
It's a strange choice to choose the french language as a example over this matter when it's even worse.
Adjectives can be placed in front or after a word and you also have to guess instinctively which is right.
Ex :
"Un grand homme" (a great man)
"Un homme grand" (a tall man)
Both are valid but don't mean the same thing.
Source : I'm french.
- jpswade 12y agoMy example used literal translations, so for example: https://translate.google.com/#auto/fr/a%20great%20man https://translate.google.com/#auto/fr/a%20great%20man a great man => un grand homme https://translate.google.com/#auto/fr/a%20tall%20man https://translate.google.com/#auto/fr/a%20tall%20man a tall man => un grand homme In both of these examples, the ordering is the same as English. So yes by that logic, you're right, French is equal to or worse than English.
- MBCook 12y ago> and you also have to guess instinctively which is right When I was learning French in school I was taught that the adjectives that go before nouns are the BANGS adjectives: Beauty Age Number Goodness Size. So words like tall, big , small, young old, or many are put before the noun while things like color go after. I'm sure there are counter examples (I only took French for a few years) but it seemed to work very well as a rule of thumb for guessing if you didn't know.