Breakdown of Il est très fâché et je suis triste.
Questions & Answers about Il est très fâché et je suis triste.
If the sentence started with Elle instead of Il, how would the spelling of fâché change?
You would need to add an extra -e to make it feminine: Elle est très fâchée. This extra -e doesn't change the pronunciation, only the written spelling. Since je could be a man or a woman, does triste change its spelling depending on who is speaking?
No, it stays exactly the same. When a French adjective already ends in an unaccented -e in its default masculine form (like triste), it doesn't get another one added for the feminine form. Fâché looks like a verb in a past tense. Is it a verb here?
It is acting as an adjective here, but it does come from a verb! It is the past participle of the verb fâcher (to make someone angry). Just like in English, French often uses past participles as adjectives to describe how someone is feeling. Learn Il est très fâché et je suis triste and more in French
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