Learn French: Ce poisson cuit est vraiment délicieux ! - This cooked fish is really delicious!

Ce poisson cuit est vraiment délicieux !

This cooked fish is really delicious!

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Questions & Answers about Ce poisson cuit est vraiment délicieux !

Why is it just Ce here, rather than the ce qui or ce que we are learning about?

In this sentence, Ce is a demonstrative adjective meaning 'this', pointing directly to the noun poisson. The ce used in ce qui and ce que acts as a pronoun meaning 'that which' or 'the thing that', and it stands on its own rather than modifying a noun right next to it.

Why does cuit come after poisson instead of before it?

The word cuit is the past participle of the verb cuire (to cook), used here as an adjective. In French, past participles acting as adjectives almost always go immediately after the noun they describe.

If I were talking about a feminine food, like meat (la viande), how would this sentence change?

You would need to make all the related words feminine. It would become Cette viande cuite est vraiment délicieuse ! Notice how Ce changes to Cette, cuit gets an -e on the end, and délicieux changes to its feminine form, délicieuse.

Does délicieux stay the same if I am talking about multiple cooked fish?

Yes! Because délicieux already ends in an -x in its masculine singular form, it does not change spelling for the masculine plural. To say 'These cooked fish are really delicious!', you would just change the rest of the sentence: Ces poissons cuits sont vraiment délicieux !