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1.08:_Nationalites
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<div class="h5p-element h5p-element-button-big h5p-transparent h5p-dragnbar-element"> <div class="h5p-dragnresize-handle nw"> <div class="h5p-element h5p-element-button-big h5p-transparent"> <div class="h5p-element-outer h5p-advancedtext-outer-element"> <div class="h5p-element-inner h5p-advanced-text"> <p>In French, adjectives of nationality are not capitalised, but nouns are.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="h5p-element h5p-element-button-big h5p-transparent"> <div class="h5p-element-outer h5p-advancedtext-outer-element"> <div class="h5p-element-inner h5p-advanced-text"> <p style="padding-left: 40px"><span style="color:#0000ff;">☞ Paul est <strong>français</strong>. </span></p> <p style="padding-left: 40px"><span style="color:#0000ff;">☞ Paul est <strong>un <span style="text-decoration:underline;">F</span>rançais</strong>.</span> <span class="mt-color-666699"><em>(Frenchman)</em></span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="h5p-dragnresize-handle ne"> <div class="h5p-element h5p-element-button-big h5p-transparent"> <div class="h5p-element-outer h5p-advancedtext-outer-element"> </div> </div> <div class="h5p-element h5p-element-button-big h5p-transparent"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="411" src="https://pressbooks.pub/introductiontofrench1/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=h5p_embed&id=130" title="Quelle est ta nationalité ?" width="686"></iframe><script src="https://pressbooks.pub/app/plugins/h5p/h5p-php-library/js/h5p-resizer.js" charset="UTF-8"></script></div> <p>Ways to ask someone’s nationality:</p> <ul> <li><span style="color:#0000ff;">Quelle est ta nationalité ?</span></li> <li><span style="color:#0000ff;">Quelle est votre nationalité ?</span> (formal)</li> <li class="h5p-element-inner h5p-advanced-text"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Tu es de quelle nationalité ?</span></li> <li class="h5p-element-inner h5p-advanced-text"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Vous êtes de quelle nationalité ?</span> (formal)</li> </ul> <span id="Feminine_form_of_nationality_adjectives"></span><h5><strong>Feminine form of nationality adjectives</strong></h5> <ul> <li>Nationality adjectives that ends with an <strong>e</strong> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">in the masculin form</span> will remain the same in the feminine.</li> </ul> <p style="padding-left: 40px"><span style="color:#0000ff;">☞ Il est belge. Elle est belge.</span></p> <ul> <li>You just add an “<strong>e</strong>” at the end of some nationality adjectives</li> </ul> <p style="padding-left: 40px"><span style="color:#0000ff;">☞ Il est allemand. Elle est allemand<strong>e</strong></span></p> <p style="padding-left: 40px"><span style="color:#0000ff;">☞ Il est français. Elle est français<strong>e</strong>.</span></p> <ul> <li>You add “<strong>ne</strong>” at the end of some nationality adjectives</li> </ul> <p style="padding-left: 40px"><span style="color:#0000ff;">☞ Il est brésilien. Elle est brésilien<strong>ne</strong><strong>.</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Special cases</li> </ul> <p style="padding-left: 40px"><span style="color:#0000ff;">☞ Il est grec. Elle est grecque.</span></p> <p style="padding-left: 40px"><span style="color:#0000ff;">☞ Il est turc. Elle est turque.</span></p> <iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="411" src="https://pressbooks.pub/introductiontofrench1/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=h5p_embed&id=129" title="Nationalités - Liste" width="686"></iframe><script src="https://pressbooks.pub/app/plugins/h5p/h5p-php-library/js/h5p-resizer.js" charset="UTF-8"></script></div> <p>Practice</p> <p><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="411" src="https://pressbooks.pub/introductiontofrench1/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=h5p_embed&id=133" title="Nationalité: masculin ou féminin. ex." width="686"></iframe><script src="https://pressbooks.pub/app/plugins/h5p/h5p-php-library/js/h5p-resizer.js" charset="UTF-8"></script></p>
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