and Spanish, where articles, determiners and adjectives (both attributive and predicative) agree in number with the nouns they qualify: le grand homme ("the great man") vs. les grands hommes ("the great men") el hombre alto ("the tall man") vs. los hombres altos ("the tall men") In English this is not such a common feature, although there are certain determiners that occur specifically with singular or plural nouns only: One big car vs. Two big cars Much great work vs. Many great works Gender In languages in which grammatical gender plays a significant role, there is often agreement in gender between a noun and its modifiers. For example, in French: le grand homme ("the big man"; homme is masculine) vs. la grande chaise ("the big chair"; chaise is feminine) Such agreement is also found with predicate adjectives: l'homme est grand ("the man is big") vs. la chaise est grande ("the chair is big"). However, in some languages, such as German, this is not the case; only attributive modifiers show agreement: der große Mann ("the big man", with inflection) vs. der Mann ist groß ("the man is big", without) In the case of verbs, gender agreement is less common, although it may still occur, for example in Arabic verbs where the second and third persons take different inflections for masculine and feminine subjects. In the French compound past tense, the past participle – formally an adjective – agrees in certain circumstances with the subject or with an object (see passé composé for details). In Russian and most other Slavic languages, the form of the past tense agrees in gender with the subject, again due to derivation from an earlier adjectival construction. There is also agreement in gender between pronouns and their antecedents. Examples of this can be found in English (although English pronouns principally follow natural gender rather than grammatical gender): The man reached his destination vs. The ship reached her/its destination For more detail see Gender in English. Case In languages that have a system of cases, there is often agreement by case between a noun and its modifiers. For example, in German: der gute Mann ("the good man", nominative case) vs. des guten Mann(e)s ("of the good man", genitive case) In fact, the modifiers of nouns in languages such as German and Latin agree with their nouns in number, gender and case; all three categories are conflated together in paradigms