Learn French: Cette histoire est vraiment fascinante, n'est-ce pas ? - This story is really fascinating, isn't it?

Here, fascinante is acting as a verbal adjective describing the feminine noun histoire. When a present participle is used as an adjective, it must agree in gender and number with the noun it describes, so we add an -e. If it were acting as a strict verb, it would never change and would stay as fascinant.

How do I build verbal adjectives like fascinante from other verbs?

You generally take the nous form of the present tense, drop the -ons, and add -ant. For example, fasciner (to fascinate) becomes fascinons, which gives us the base for fascinant (fascinating). Just remember that when used as an adjective, it takes endings to match the noun!

Why is vraiment placed before fascinante?

While most adjectives go after the noun, vraiment is an adverb modifying the adjective fascinante. In French, adverbs that modify adjectives are placed directly in front of the adjective they are intensifying, exactly like in English.

Is n'est-ce pas always the translation for English question tags like "isn't it", "don't they", or "aren't we"?