Vieux vs viele

Sunil K.A1Kwiziq community member

Ce monument est très vieux aujourd'hui.

Why did you use vieux here even it is proceeded by a vowel word ,"aujourd'hui.it must be vieil accordingly.

Asked 7 hours ago

Maarten K.C1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Sunil,

this is ‘ exception ‘ being covered in the lesson.

“ However, this rule only applies if the word after beau, nouveau, vieux... is a noun “

Aujourd’hui is an adverb of time, not a noun, and vieux does not change :

https://www.wordreference.com/fren/aujourd%27hui

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Ce monument est très vieux aujourd'hui.

Why did you use vieux here even it is proceeded by a vowel word ,"aujourd'hui.it must be vieil accordingly.

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