How to say 'the'

Le Musée de la Musique
La Place de la Fontaine
Voilà la fontaine

• In French, everything and everybody - people, places and things - has a gender, i.e. they are either feminine (f) or masculine (m).



• In front of masculine words the word for 'the' (known as the definite article) is le; with feminine words it is la.



• With human beings the gender of a noun is obvious enough, but with other objects, though, you'll need to learn the gender as you go along.



• If a word is plural, the word for 'the' is les, which is pronounced slightly differently from le. You also add an 's' to the end of plural words, though it's not usually pronounced.

See also l', les

Is it le or is it la? Complete these sentences about finding your way by clicking on le or la and dragging the correct one into each gap.