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Personnalité
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but friendliness is in the heart and kindness is in the soul. Check out this French vocabulary to learn how to describe someone’s personality.
Asking about someone’s personality
To ask what a person is like, you need the verb être (to be):
| What is he like? | Comment est-il ? | |
| What is she like? | Comment est-elle ? |
Describing someone’s personality
When describing someone, use être and remember to make the adjective agree with the person’s gender.
| He / She is… | Il est… | Elle est… | |
| boring | ennuyeux | ennuyeuse | |
| brave | courageux | courageuse | |
| cowardly | lâche | lâche | |
| cunning, shrewd | malin | maline | |
| friendly | amical | amicale | |
| funny | drôle | drôle | |
| hard-working | travailleur | travailleuse | |
| impatient | impatient | impatiente | |
| interesting | intéressant | intéressante | |
| kind | gentil | gentille | |
| lazy | paresseux | paresseuse | |
| mean | méchant | méchante | |
| naive | naïf | naïve | |
| nice | sympathique sympa |
sympathique sympa |
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| open-minded | sans préjugés | sans préjugés | |
| outgoing | ouvert | ouverte | |
| patient | patient | patiente | |
| patriotic | patriotique | patriotique | |
| playful | taquin | taquine | |
| quirky | excentrique | excentrique | |
| serious | sérieux | sérieuse | |
| shy | timide | timide | |
| smart | intelligent | intelligente | |
| snobbish | snob | snob | |
| sophisticated | raffiné | raffinée | |
| studious | studieux | studieuse | |
| stupid | stupide | stupide | |
| unfriendly | froid | froide | |
| well-behaved | sage | sage |
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