Specific adjectives

La France occidentale est sous le soleil aujourd'hui.

Western France is sunny today.

A set of specific adjectives that aren’t that intuitive.

1. Western -- m/f -- occidental/e
2. Eastern -- m/f -- oriental/e
3. Southern -- m/f -- austral/e
4. Northern -- m/f -- septentrional/e
5. From the Northern hemisphere, next to the North pole-- m/f -- boréal/e

.     .     .     .     .     .     .     .

1. summery -- m/f -- estival/e
2. autumnal -- m/f -- automnal/e
3. wintry -- m/f -- hivernal/e
4. spring-like -- m/f -- printanier/nière

.     .     .     .     .     .     .     .

1. daily -- m/f -- journalier/lière, quotidien/ne
2. weekly -- m/f -- hebdomadaire
3. monthly -- m/f -- mensuel/le
4. every three months -- m/f -- trimestriel/le
5. every six months -- m/f -- semestriel/le
6. yearly -- m/f -- annuel/le
7. that lasts two years -- m/f -- biennal/e
8. every two years -- m/f -- bisannuel/le, biennal/e
9. every ten years -- m/f -- décadaire
10. leap year -- f -- année bissextile

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