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J'admire les beaux tableaux et les drapeaux français.

J'admire les beaux tableaux et les drapeaux français.
I admire the beautiful paintings and the French flags.
From Lesson 80:Irregular plurals (-x)·French

Questions & Answers about J'admire les beaux tableaux et les drapeaux français.

Why do tableaux and drapeaux end in -x instead of -s?
Most French nouns take an -s in the plural, but nouns ending in -eau (like un tableau and un drapeau) are irregular. To make them plural, you add an -x instead.
Why is the adjective beaux spelled with an -x?
Just like the nouns in this lesson, adjectives that end in -eau form their plural by adding an -x. The masculine singular is beau, so the plural becomes beaux.
Why does beaux come before the noun, but français comes after?
Most French adjectives go after the noun they describe, like nationalities (drapeaux français). However, a short list of common adjectives describing Beauty, Age, Goodness, or Size (often called the BAGS rule) go before the noun. Beaux describes beauty, so it goes before tableaux.
Since we are talking about multiple flags, why doesn't français get an extra -s?
When a masculine word already ends in an -s or an -x in the singular, its spelling doesn't change in the plural. Since the singular is français, the plural stays exactly the same.

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