by
Michel Veber (1896 - 1965), as Nino
Grammaire
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG ENG
L'adjectif qualificatif
Est un mot qui nous fait connaître
Un défaut, une qualité,
Une façon d'être ou d'avoir été.
Exemple:
Ma tante est dingo
Mon oncle est timbré.
Mon frère est marteau
Tout l'monde est cinglé.
Mais la conduite de ma mère
Ne se qualifie guère,
Et la manière d'être de Papa
Ne se qualifie pas.
L'adjectif qualificatif
Est un mot qui nous fait connaître
Un défaut, une qualité,
Une façon d'être ou d'avoir été.
Authorship:
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English [singable] (Peter Low) , "Grammar", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Grammar", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 17
Word count: 75
Grammar
Language: English  after the French (Français)
Adjectives are describing words.
They are used for communicating
characters and qualities,
manners of being or having been.
For example:
Janet is disturbed.
Jack and Jill are lazy.
Jimmy is absurd.
Everybody's crazy
But the behaviour of Mama
renders description difficult.
As for the conduct of Papa,
that's indescribable...
Adjectives are describing words.
They are used for communicating
good and bad qualities,
manners of being or having been.
Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Michel Veber (1896 - 1965), as Nino
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 17
Word count: 85