French Steps - Buying clothes - Build sentences

How to describe things

Je préfère le noir
C'est trop petit. Vous avez un peu plus grand ?
C'est un peu cher

• To talk about clothes, you'll need words like petit, 'small', cher, 'expensive', and noir, 'black'.



• These are called adjectives, and unlike in English usually come after the thing they're describing, e.g. le t-shirt noir, 'the black t-shirt'. However petit, 'small', and grand, 'big', come before, e.g. la petite chemise, the small shirt.



• Adjectives can have different endings, which sometimes changes the sound of the word. When describing feminine words they end in -e, e.g. petite, chère, noire.



• When they're describing more than one thing, adjectives usually end in -s, e.g. les casquettes rouges, 'the red caps'.

See also ways of describing and le, la

Complete the sentences about clothes by typing in the correct words in each of the gaps.