personnelles

Personnelles is the feminine plural form of the French adjective personnel. It describes traits, items, or concepts that pertain to individuals or are of a private character, and it agrees with feminine plural nouns.

Common uses appear in phrases such as données personnelles (personal data), informations personnelles (personal information), affaires personnelles (personal affairs), biens personnels (personal property), and objets personnels (personal effects). It also occurs in the sense of personal questions, as in questions personnelles. In privacy contexts, the phrase caractère personnel appears to denote something of a private nature.

Grammar note: The form is one of the inflected forms of the adjective personnel. It agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies; masculine: personnel, feminine: personnelle, feminine plural: personnelles, masculine plural: personnels.

In everyday language and law, the feminine plural form personnelles helps distinguish things related to individuals from things that are public or collective, such as personal data, personal information, or personal belongings. It is one of several gendered forms that illustrate how French adjectives reflect the nouns they describe.