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empty charm
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You cannot have « nous avez » if « nous » here is a subject pronoun

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Each conjugation is fixed to their subjects so you can never have mixing like « j’avons nous ai, il avez, tu ont »

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That being said, French object pronouns are placed before their verbs so if you see something like « vous nous avez (you have us) » that can work

jovial sky
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So if i want to say we have black jackets do i use say Nous avons noir blousons

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As in plurals

empty charm
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Nous avons des blousons noirs yeah

jovial sky
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Is des necessary?

empty charm
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First off, French nouns are almost always accompanied by an article

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Second, most adjectives – colour included – are after the noun

empty charm
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la pomme = the apple (we all know which apple it is, it's a specific type)
une pomme = an apple (it's just one apple and is not specific so can be any type)
des pommes = some apples (there's more than one apple but we don't know exactly how many)

jovial sky
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Ah i see

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So des not specificied basically

empty charm
empty charm
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'some' is the English translation

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'We have some black jackets'

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it's just that this can be dropped in English, and you'll find that French is rather 'strict' whereas English can be loose with the rules

jovial sky
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İ see

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How can I make change sentences to making plural for example tu as un jean blue?

empty charm
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well what are you turning plural

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if it's the object, you can turn the noun plural which will make the article and adjective change to agree with that

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if it's the subject, you can turn the subject plural which will make the conjugation turn to agree

jovial sky
empty charm
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I don't even know which one you're thinking about

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Oh number 4

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Yeah that'll just be the objects

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When you see « un/une », just think of « des » in plural form

jovial sky
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So i only change un/une to des?

empty charm
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adjectives agree too

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so they change

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ex

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« J'ai une chaussure verte / J'ai des chaussures vertes »

jovial sky
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Which translates to you have blue jeans

empty charm
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well my example is 'I have a green shoe / I have some green shoes'

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Adjectives in English don't agree but French ones do

jovial sky
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I see okay thank you very much

empty charm
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do note that they agree in number and gender

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you asked noirs/noires before

jovial sky
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Yep which are gender plurals

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But tu is you is not specific as gender

empty charm
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« Je vois une maison verte »
« Je vois des maisons vertes »
« Je vois un drapeau vert »
« Je vois des drapeaux verts »

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Notice how « vert » changes according to the number and gender of the noun it modifies

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maison (feminine singular) = verte (feminine singular)
maisons (feminine plural) = vertes (feminine plural)
drapeau (masculine singular) = vert (masculine singular)
drapeaux (masculine plural) = verts (masculine plural)

empty charm
jovial sky
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So Tu as un jean bleu changes to Tu as des jean bleue

empty charm
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« Tu es très belle »

empty charm
jovial sky
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As the s plural

empty charm
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« jean » is a masculine noun

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bleu = masculine singular
bleus = masculine plural
bleue = feminine singular
bleues = feminine plural

empty charm
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Oh and S pluralisation is not a given

jovial sky
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Okay

empty charm
jovial sky
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So il a une chemise jaun=he has a yellow shirt if i want to make this plural I make the sentence Il a des chemises jauns?

empty charm
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The adjective is wrong

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« jaune » is how you spell it

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Some adjectives already end in E and so their masculine/feminine forms will be the same

jovial sky
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Yeah forgot the e

empty charm
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« des chaussures jaunes / des portables jaunes »

empty charm
jovial sky
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Than it makes it jaunes

empty charm
jovial sky
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It’s difficult especially if there is no fundamental

empty charm
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that's why you try and take it slow

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it's a foreign language

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it'll contain things unfamiliar to you

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take it slow and be careful

fresh totem
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vous nous avez trompé !