Learn French: Nous voulons comparer un vin sec et un vin fruité. - We want to compare a dry wine and a fruity wine.

Nous voulons comparer un vin sec et un vin fruité.

We want to compare a dry wine and a fruity wine.

Breakdown of Nous voulons comparer un vin sec et un vin fruité.

a / an (masculine)

and

nous

we / us (object pronoun)

le vin

the wine

Questions & Answers about Nous voulons comparer un vin sec et un vin fruité.

Why do the adjectives sec and fruité come after vin?

In French, most adjectives, including those describing taste or categories (like sec for dry and fruité for fruity), are placed after the noun they describe.

Since the current lesson is about meilleur (better), where would it go in this sentence?

If you wanted to say "a better wine", you would say un meilleur vin. Unlike sec and fruité, the adjective meilleur is one of the special adjectives that goes before the noun.

What happens to sec and fruité if we are talking about a feminine noun, like a beer (une bière)?

Fruité simply takes an extra e to become fruitée. However, sec has an irregular feminine form and changes to sèche. So you would say une bière sèche et une bière fruitée.

Why is comparer in the infinitive (unconjugated) form?

Whenever you have two verbs working together in a phrase, the second verb stays in its infinitive (dictionary) form. Here, the first verb voulons (we want) is conjugated to match nous, so comparer stays unconjugated.