There is almost always a noun at the heart of every French sentence. Two properties determine how you should build a sentence: the noun's gender and its number.

Assigning Gender

Unlike English, French nouns have a gender — either masculine or feminine. There is very little rhyme or reason to which nouns are masculine and which are feminine.

French adjectives have both masculine and feminine forms. An adjective's gender must match, or agree with, the gender of the noun it modifies. If you have a masculine noun, use the masculine form of the adjective; if the noun is feminine, the feminine form of the adjective is appropriate.