FlagOnce Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 The subtle thing with "tout/toutes/tous/toute", which isn't the easiest to follow sometimes, is that it means many things at the same time.Let's define it more simply than it appears: "tout" is when it's singular, masculine, and not plural. "tous" is plural, masculine. "toute" is singular and feminine. "toutes" is the plural, feminine. That's basically it.Let's take "tout à fait". Here, it's not feminine. But if you take rather "tous les jours", "jour" is masculine since we say "un jour", but because we talk about many days and not only one, it becomes plural masculine with "tous". "Toutes les balles de tennis sont perdues" here is "toutes" because it's "une balle" (balle is feminine), and there's many tennis yellow balls. Or it would be boring. linguaholic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguaholic Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Thanks for that FlagOnce! I often have trouble with the use of "tout/toutes/tous/toute". Especially when writing, I always have to think about the correct morphological form. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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