"Vous lisez un livre facile."

Translation: You read an easy book.

[greyxray]

how would I say : "I read a book easily"?
and how:"I read an easy book easily"?

[Sitesurf]

je lis un livre facilement

je lis facilement un livre facile

[greyxray]

can't I also say: je lis facilement un livre ?

[Sitesurf]

Sure, you can.

[greyxray]

and can I say "je lis un livre facile facilement "?

[Ripcurlgirl]

Wouldn't this also translate to "You are reading a simple book". I know this is "Vous lisez un livre simple" but, in English, simple and easy are fairly synonomous words.

[Sitesurf]

There are indeed many instances where "easy" and "simple" can be interchangeable. However, you know how Duolingo likes to be precise; so "easy" is "facile" and "simple" is "simple".

[Ripcurlgirl]

Thanks Sitesurf :)

[vivienps]

when to use un facile livre and when to use un livre facile?

[Sitesurf]

You don't use "un facile livre": 90% of French adjectives are placed after the noun.

To know more about it: http://french.about.com/od/grammar/a/adjectives_4.htm

[moranmonkey]

I keep getting these questions in lesson 7, while these words are clearly vocabulary of lesson 1. The original vocabulary of lesson 7( it happens on every lesson > 1, btw ) was reduced to incroyable alone + all of lesson 1's vocabulary.
If created a discussion under troubleshooting.

[JoshuaRiley]

An is used before words that start with a vowel no?

[tishita58]

before a word that starts with a vowel, the correct grammar is using "an": an easy book

[JP9911]

why is 'un' used in this case, and not 'une'?

[alisabgr]

Because it's le livre (masculine) and not la livre (feminine)

[JP9911]

Right!! Thanks. I always make the mistake that 'une' refers to 'one' rather than the feminine.

[Sean138766]

Is there an equivalent French word for facile? In English it's used as a pejorative to mean something that is shallow/trite, simple-minded or childish.

[BugraBeyaz]

why not "un livre facil" instead? Why doesn't "facile"agree with the noun?

[Sitesurf]

"facile" ends with an -e even in masculine, so it only changes in plural.

[butterfly1325]

i don't think that "vous lisez un livre facile" = "vous lisez un livre qui est facile" -_-

[Sitesurf]

It means the same thing, it is just a bit more insistent, and "qui est" is not needed.