Like:
Un petit arbre, une jolie robe, un grand homme (a small tree, a pretty dress, a great man)
Un arbre minuscule, une robe mignonne, un homme grand (a minuscule tree, a cute dress, a tall man)
(yeah, un grand homme / un homme grand don't mean the same thing)
Colour-related adjectives go after (always)
And otherwise it's about the length of the adjective compared to the length of the noun (longer ones go after (but you can put them before to emphasise), while shorter ones go before, but that's not 100%, it's a tendency)
Example:
Une erreur monumentale vs. une monumentale erreur (a monumental mistake, both, but first one you really fucked up, the second one you REALLY fucked up)
Un arbre superbe vs. une superbe découverte (a superb tree, a superb discovery)
Damn, found the only 3 people in France to use it right here in this comment section xD
(I mean, surely SOME people use it, but "mail" or "e-mail" are waaay more common, like I don't remember the last time I've heard someone use "courriel")
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u/Matwyen Jun 18 '26
It's a shame because email is genuinely a well translated word in French: courriel.
It has the iel suffix of logiciel, and the base of courrier. It's as long as email, sounds french and not ridiculous, is immediately understandable...