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Ce jouet articulé est incroyable !

Ce jouet articulé est incroyable !
This articulated toy is incredible!
From Lesson 381:Prepositions of characteristic and material (à, de)·French

Questions & Answers about Ce jouet articulé est incroyable !

Since this lesson is about using à for characteristics, why don't we say un jouet à articulations?
You use à + noun to describe a feature when there isn't a direct adjective for it (like un jouet à piles for 'a battery-operated toy'). Here, the past participle articulé acts as a perfect adjective on its own, so no preposition is needed. It simply modifies the noun directly.
Why does articulé come after jouet?
Past participles used as adjectives, such as articulé (from the verb articuler), almost always follow the noun in French. Only a specific group of short, common adjectives (often remembered by the acronym BAGS: Beauty, Age, Goodness, Size) go before the noun.
As a quick refresher, why is it ce jouet and not cet jouet?
Jouet is a masculine noun starting with a consonant, so it takes the standard masculine demonstrative adjective ce. You only use cet for masculine nouns that start with a vowel or a mute H (like cet oiseau). For feminine nouns, you would always use cette.

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