forty

forty
An adjective is a word that describes a noun (e.g., grand, petit).
adjective
a. quarante
There are exactly forty glow-in-the-dark star stickers on the ceiling of my bedroom, and my little brother insists on counting them every night.Il y a exactement quarante étoiles phosphorescentes au plafond de ma chambre, et mon petit frère tient absolument à les compter tous les soirs.
A noun is a word that refers to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., femme, chat, maison).
noun
a. le quarante
(m) means that a noun is masculine. French nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la dame or la lune) or masculine (like l'homme or le soleil).
(M)
I think Declan's phone number ends in a forty.Je crois que le numéro de téléphone de Declan se termine par un quarante.
A pronoun is a word that stands in for a noun (e.g., elle, lui).
pronoun
a. quarante
Last week, I still had hundreds of exams to grade. Now I'm down to forty.La semaine dernière, j'avais encore des centaines de copies d'examen à corriger. Aujourd'hui, il ne m'en reste plus que quarante.
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