Breakdown of Les joueurs aiment les nouveaux jeux.
aimer
to like, to love
nouveau
new
le jeu
the game (board game, video game, etc.)
le joueur
the player
Questions & Answers about Les joueurs aiment les nouveaux jeux.
Why do nouveaux and jeux end with an -x instead of an -s?
In French, most nouns and adjectives get an -s in the plural. But words that end in -eau (like nouveau) and -eu (like jeu) are irregular: they add an -x instead! So nouveau becomes nouveaux and jeu becomes jeux.
Joueurs has an "eu" in it, so why does it get an -s instead of an -x?
Good eye! The -x rule only applies when the word ends with the exact letters -eu or -eau (like jeu). Joueur ends with -eur, which is a different ending, so it just takes a regular -s to become joueurs.
Why is nouveaux placed before jeux? Don't French adjectives usually go after the noun?
Yes, most do! But a special group of short, common adjectives goes before the noun. You can remember them with the acronym BANGS (Beauty, Age, Number, Goodness, Size). Nouveau (new) falls under Age, so it goes before the noun.
Do I pronounce the -s on joueurs or the -x on nouveaux and jeux?
No, the plural -s and -x endings are completely silent here. You can only hear that the words are plural because of the article les (pronounced "lay"). Note: if the word after nouveaux started with a vowel, you would pronounce the -x like a "z" to link them together, but jeux starts with a consonant.
How do I pronounce the verb aiment?
Even though it has a lot of letters at the end, the -ent on plural verb endings is always completely silent. You just pronounce it like "em".
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