bergère). Adjectives Adjectives agree in terms of number, gender and case with the noun that they are qualifying. Thus, a feminine plural noun in the nominative case requires any qualifying adjectives to be feminine, plural and nominative. For example, in femes riches, riche has to be in the feminine plural form. Adjectives can be divided into three declensional classes: Class I corresponding roughly to Latin 1st- and 2nd-declension adjectives Class II corresponding roughly to Latin 3rd-declension adjectives Class III containing primarily the descendants of Latin synthetic comparative forms in -ior, -iōrem. Class I adjectives have a feminine singular form (nominative and oblique) ending in -e. They can be further subdivided into two subclasses, based on the masculine nominative singular form. Class Ia adjectives have a masculine nominative singular ending in -s: bon "good" (< bonus, > bon) {| class="wikitable" ! ! colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | Masculine ! colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | Feminine ! Neuter |- ! Case || Singular || Plural || Singular || Plural || Singular |- ! Nominative | bons || bon | rowspan="2" | bone || rowspan="2" | bones | bon |- ! Oblique | bon || bons || — |} For Class Ib adjectives, the masculine nominative singular ends in -e, like the feminine. There are descendants of Latin second- and third-declension adjectives ending in -er in the nominative singular: aspre "harsh" (< asper, > âpre) {| class="wikitable" ! ! colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | Masculine ! colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | Feminine ! Neuter |- ! Case || Singular || Plural || Singular || Plural || Singular |- ! Nominative | rowspan="2" | aspre | aspre | rowspan="2" | aspre || rowspan="2" | aspres | aspre |- ! Oblique | aspres || — |} For Class II adjectives, the feminine singular is not marked by the ending -e: granz "big, great" (< grandis, > grand) {| class="wikitable" ! ! colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | Masculine ! colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | Feminine ! Neuter |- ! Case || Singular || Plural || Singular || Plural || Singular |- ! Nominative | granz || grant | granz/grant || rowspan="2" | granz | grant |- ! Oblique | grant || granz || grant || — |} An important subgroup of Class II adjectives is the present participial forms in -ant. Class III adjectives have a stem alternation, resulting from stress shift in the Latin third declension and a distinct neuter form: