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[rare delta]

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[spice apex]

Here you go: https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/tout-adverb/

[terse eagle]

While it's an adverbial construction, "seul" is fundamentally an adjective

but in the end, linguistically speaking the line between adverbs and adjectives can be very blurry
French adjectives like to agree in gender and number with the nouns they modify, so that's what's going on here

"tout de suite" is a fixed expression and doesn't modify "elle" in your second example

[south coral]

that rule with tout only becoming toute/toutes in front of feminine adjectives continues to infuriate me

[spice apex]

Especially ones starting with a consonant or an aspirated H like here.

[ancient obsidian]

I see, so in my original sentence "toute" modifies "seule", but "seule" is an adjective so I don't think it modifies "s'habiller"

I am still struggling with this

[terse eagle]

it's functioning as an adverb, but it agrees as an adjective

[ancient obsidian]

you mean "seule" itself functions as an adverb but still agrees with the subject?

[south coral]

Well not just seul but « tout seul »

[dusk perch]

why

une tarte tout entière
i mean idk who decided to write it like that bc it'd be pronounced the same if it was toute

pointless rule

[terse eagle]

that's why it's stupid

[south coral]

It only happens when there wouldn't be a pronunciation difference

[dusk perch]

i think whoever made that rule didn't realize

[south coral]

tout entiers / tous entiers = different
tout heureuses / toutes heureuses = different
toute verte / toutes vertes = no bloody difference

[terse eagle]

the worst rules are for color agreement, I think, however

une jupe bleue
une jupe bleu clair

[south coral]

then just fucking keep it as « tout verte / tout vertes » like don't introduce this wankstain of a '''rule'''

[dusk perch]

that'd be pronounced differently?

[dusk perch]

i dont get that message

you compared
plural with tout to mean a lot/plural with tout to mean all of them
same thing
and then singular/plural

[south coral]

« tout » only changes when there's no change in pronunciation so why bother change it

[dusk perch]

yeah exactly so it should be different there

tout verte isnt the same as toute verte

tout verte sounds wrong

[terse eagle]

tout needs to agree with the color

[south coral]

why have this rule of, 'Oh yeah « tout » in front of an adjective is invariable unless the adjective is feminine and starts with a consonant, i.e. the one place where « tout » being feminine WON'T change the pronunciation'

[dusk perch]

yeah but thats not what you showed with those examples

[south coral]

I'm not going to lie

it is 22.09 and I also don't get it

the point I'm making is that this rule is stupid

[dusk perch]

i agree with that but your examples make no sense

[south coral]

a better example will come to mind within 12 hours when I am more refreshed (probably)