Grade 4 · French Immersion · Unit 4 of 9
Les adverbes en -ment
Lentement, doucement
What your child practises
Forming adverbs from the feminine form of an adjective plus -ment.
Alberta Curriculum learning outcome: Use the writing process and complete sentences to express ideas in fiction and non-fiction texts. · writing in French with correct conventions
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Complète : ___, tu as raison. (évident)
- Évident
- Évidement
- Évidemment
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Évidemment
Hint: Adjectives ending in -ent make adverbs ending in -emment: évident → évidemment.
Question 2
Complète : Parle ___, s'il te plaît. (doux)
- doucement
- douxment
- doucément
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doucement
Hint: Take the feminine form of the adjective and add -ment: lente → lentement, douce → doucement. Careful with endings in -ent/-ant: they become -emment/-amment.
Question 3
Complète : Nous avançons ___. (prudent)
- prudent
- prudemment
- prudentment
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prudemment
Hint: Adjectives ending in -ent make adverbs ending in -emment: prudent → prudemment.
Question 4
Complète : Elle court ___. (rapide)
- rapide
- rapidemment
- rapidement
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rapidement
Hint: Take the feminine form of the adjective and add -ment: lente → lentement, douce → doucement. Careful with endings in -ent/-ant: they become -emment/-amment.
Question 5
Complète : Elle travaille ___. (sérieux)
- sérieusment
- sérieusement
- sérieuse
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sérieusement
Hint: Take the feminine form of the adjective and add -ment: lente → lentement, douce → doucement. Careful with endings in -ent/-ant: they become -emment/-amment.
Question 6
Complète : Il attend ___. (patient)
- patiement
- patientment
- patiemment
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patiemment
Hint: Adjectives ending in -ent make adverbs ending in -emment: patient → patiemment.