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Nous avons fait un voyage merveilleux.

Nous avons fait un voyage merveilleux.
We had a wonderful trip.
From Lesson 77:Irregular feminine adjectives (-euse, -ve)·French

Questions & Answers about Nous avons fait un voyage merveilleux.

The lesson is about feminine adjectives. Why does merveilleux end in -eux here?
Because it is describing un voyage (a trip), which is a masculine noun. If it were describing a feminine noun, like an adventure (une aventure), the ending would change to -euse, making it une aventure merveilleuse.
The English translation says 'We had', but doesn't avons fait mean 'have made' or 'have done'?
Yes, literally this sentence translates to 'We have made a wonderful trip.' In French, you don't 'have' a trip like you do in English; instead, you use the verb faire (to do/make). The phrase faire un voyage is the standard way to say 'to take a trip' or 'to have a trip'.
Why is the adjective merveilleux placed after voyage?
In French, most descriptive adjectives go after the noun they describe. Only a specific group of common, short adjectives (often remembered by the acronym BANGS: Beauty, Age, Number, Goodness, and Size) usually go before the noun. Merveilleux follows the normal rule and goes after.
If we went on multiple wonderful trips, how would the spelling of merveilleux change?
It wouldn't change at all! Masculine adjectives that already end in -x (or -s) in their singular form keep the exact same spelling in the plural. So, 'wonderful trips' would simply be des voyages merveilleux.

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