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Quantitative adjectives describe amount or number and guide how you measure, count, or divide things. This guide covers common quantitative adjectives and key nuances with examples.

Key Adjectives

Key quantitative adjectives fall into categories like total amount, portion, and frequency. Each adjective has typical usage and agreement rules.

Amount Adjectives

Adjectives such as beaucoup de, assez de, and trop de modify a mass or count noun and are followed by de plus the noun.

	French Phrase	English Phrase
	beaucoup de	a lot of
	assez de	enough
	trop de	too much / too many
	un peu de	a little
	davantage de	more

Number Adjectives

Adjectives like plusieurs, quelques, and chaque deal with countable items and directly modify the noun; plusieurs and quelques are plural, while chaque is singular.

	French Phrase	English Phrase
	plusieurs	several
	quelques	some / a few
	chaque	each / every
	la plupart des	most of the
	la majorité des	the majority of

Which of these number adjectives directly modify the noun without 'de' and require plural agreement? (choose all that apply)

quelques

chaque

beaucoup

un peu

plusieurs

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Portion Adjectives

Adjectives such as la moitié de, une partie de, and la majorité de specify a fraction or segment of a whole and are followed by de plus the noun or article.

	French Phrase	English Phrase
	la moitié de	half of
	une partie de	part of
	la majorité de	most of
	un quart de	a quarter of
	une minorité de	a minority of

Frequency Adjectives

Frequency expressions like plusieurs fois, quelques fois, and chaque fois indicate how often something occurs; they typically modify a verb rather than directly describing a noun.

	French Phrase	English Phrase
	plusieurs fois	several times
	quelques fois	a few times
	chaque fois	each time
	souvent	often
	parfois	sometimes