There are two numbers in French: singular and plural.
Most nouns in French have singular and plural forms:
la famille, les familles (the family, the families)
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Number of Nouns: Singular
and Plural
Noncount Nouns
Plural of Compound
Nouns
Plural of Proper Nouns
Pronouns also have singular and plural forms:
le mien (mine [singular, masculine]) les miens (mine [plural, masculine])
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Pronouns
Adjectives and articles agree with nouns in number (and also in gender).
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Singular and Plural Forms
of Adjectives
Articles
Verbs agree with the subject in number:
Nous portons des chaussures
marron.
(We are wearing brown shoes.)
Portons is 1st person plural, present tense of the verb porter and agrees in number with the personal pronoun nous.
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Verbs
1st Conjugation
2nd Conjugation
3rd Conjugation
Participles
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