Learn French: Les parents et les enfants sont patients. - The parents and the children are patient.

In French, adjectives have to match the noun they describe. Because the subject (the parents and children) is plural, we add an s to the adjective patient to make it plural too, giving us patients.

"Parents" and "children" include both males and females. Does that change how patients is spelled?

It determines which plural form we use! In French, if a group contains mixed genders, the adjective defaults to the masculine plural form. The masculine singular is patient, so we just add an s to get the masculine plural patients.

Do I pronounce the s at the end of parents, enfants, and patients?

No, the final s on these plural words is completely silent. You pronounce the singular patient and the plural patients exactly the same way. The s is just there in writing to show that the words are plural.

How do I pronounce les enfants? Do the words blend together?