Learn French: J'aime la nature et les beaux oiseaux. - I like nature and beautiful birds.

In French, most nouns and adjectives that end in -eau (or -eu) take an -x to form the plural instead of the usual -s. So, the singular beau becomes beaux, and oiseau becomes oiseaux.

Don't French adjectives usually come after the noun? Why is beaux placed before oiseaux?

You are right that most adjectives come after the noun! However, a small group of common, short adjectives always go before it. You can remember them with the acronym BANGS (Beauty, Age, Number, Goodness, Size). Since beau describes Beauty, it comes before the noun.

How do you pronounce the -x in beaux oiseaux?

Normally, the -x at the end of a word is completely silent. But because oiseaux starts with a vowel, you must make a liaison (a linking sound). The -x at the end of beaux connects to the beginning of oiseaux and is pronounced like a z sound.

Why do we say la nature when the English translation is just nature and not the nature?