French - tous, tout, toutes

Turquoise

Could someone explain these to me with examples? I've always gotten them wrong...

Peleus

I'm not entiriely sure on them myself, so i got this from another forum for you:

Tout can be either an adjective, a pronoun or an adverb.

As an adjective, tout agrees with its noun.
As a pronoun, tout agrees with what it represents.

. . . . m . . . . f
sing: tout . toute
plur: tous . toutes

Quelqu'un a mangé tout le fromage.
Il a bu toute une bouteille de pastis.
Tous les hommes viennent de Mars.
Toutes les femmes viennent de Vénus.

As an adverb tout is invariable, unless it's followed by a feminine adjective beginning with a consonant:

Il est tout petit.
Ils sont tout petits.
C'est une tout autre affaire.
Nous sommes tout heureuses.
Elle est tout intelligente.

But:
Elle est toute petite.

I know that for negative things it's always tout
Je ne suis pas du tout d'accord

And for all other things it usually agrees with what ever it's referring to. As long as you don't make a massive mistake with it it's fine.

The LeavyC

pas du tout just means not at all.

for the rest of the time just do as this says
masc. singular- tout. - plural - tous
fem. singular- toute. - plural - toutes

ciaranajl

Examples:

toutes mes copines (all my girl friends)
tous mes copains (all my boy friends)
tout le monde (all the world/the whole world... everybody)
toute la cusine (all the kitchen/the whole kitchen)