Breakdown of J'aime surtout les films français.
français
French
aimer
to like, to love
le film
the movie / the film
surtout
especially, above all
Questions & Answers about J'aime surtout les films français.
Why is surtout placed right after the verb aime?
In French, short adverbs like surtout (especially) are usually placed immediately after the conjugated verb. Unlike in English where we often put it before the verb (I especially like), in French the order is I like especially (J'aime surtout).
Why is it les films and not des films since it translates to just French films?
When you express general preferences using verbs like aimer (to like), adorer (to love), or détester (to hate), you must use the definite article (le, la, or les). You use les here because you are talking about the entire category of French films.
Could I use quelques here, as in J'aime surtout quelques films français?
You could, but it changes the meaning. Using les means you like French films in general. If you swap it for the indefinite adjective quelques (a few), it means you only like a specific handful of French films, rather than the whole genre.
Why doesn't the adjective français get an extra 's' since it describes the plural noun films?
French adjectives usually add an 's' to become plural. However, if the masculine singular form of a word already ends in an 's' or an 'x' (like français), it doesn't change for the masculine plural. So it looks exactly the same for one film or many.
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