Breakdown of Ces deux photos sont pareilles.
Questions & Answers about Ces deux photos sont pareilles.
The lesson is about using les mêmes, so why does this sentence use pareilles to mean 'the same'?
While les mêmes means 'the same', the adjective pareil (meaning alike, identical, or the same) is very commonly used when you are simply describing things at the end of a sentence. You could also say Ces deux photos sont les mêmes, which is completely correct and means exactly the same thing. Why does pareilles have an -les at the end?
Because it is an adjective agreeing with photos. The base masculine singular form is pareil. Since photo is a feminine word, we double the L and add an E to make it feminine (pareille), and then add an S because there are two of them, resulting in pareilles. I often mix up 'these' and 'those'. Why do we use ces here?
Ces is the plural demonstrative adjective for both 'these' and 'those'. It is used for all plural nouns, regardless of whether they are masculine or feminine. You only need to worry about the gender if the noun is singular (ce or cet for masculine, cette for feminine). Learn Ces deux photos sont pareilles and more in French
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