Breakdown of Tout ce désordre me rend toujours irritable.
toujours
always
ce
this (before a noun)
tout
all, everything
me
me, myself (object pronoun)
Questions & Answers about Tout ce désordre me rend toujours irritable.
Why is the verb rendre used here instead of faire to mean 'makes'?
In French, when you want to say that something 'makes' someone or something into a certain state or emotion (followed by an adjective), you must use rendre. You use faire when 'make' is followed by an action (a verb), like faire pleurer (to make someone cry). Because irritable is an adjective describing a state, rendre is the required verb here.
If a woman is speaking, does the adjective irritable change its spelling?
In this specific case, no, because irritable already ends in an 'e' in its masculine form, so it stays the same for feminine. However, the rule is that the adjective after rendre must agree in gender and number with the object it modifies (here, the pronoun me), not the subject causing the feeling (Tout ce désordre). If the adjective were nerveux, a female speaker would change it to me rend nerveuse.
Why does the sentence use Tout ce désordre instead of Tout le désordre?
Why does the adverb toujours come after ?