Good and bad experiences: feminine adjective agreement

The SSCs [om] and [on] are nasal sounds. Before a consonant they have the same nasal sound, like in ‘bombe’ and 'monde'. Before a vowel the 'm' and 'n' are pronounced, like in 'omelette' and 'monotone'. They are different oral sounds. In French, the ending of an adjective matches the noun it describes. This is called adjective agreement. There are various ways to make an adjective feminine, including adding an -e and changing -eur to -euse. Some short masculine adjectives ending in -n, -l or -s double the last letter before adding -e, e.g. gentil, gentille.