Our World
Seasons
There are four seasons.
Il y a quatre saisons. - There are four seasons.
le printemps - the spring
l’été - the summer
l’automne - the autumn
l’hiver - the winter
Can you see that three of the seasons have the article l’ rather than le or la? That’s because they start with a vowel (h is silent in French so the first sound is a vowel). They are all masculine nouns.
To say ‘in summer, winter, autumn’, you take off the article (le/la/l’) and add en.
en été - in summer
en automne - in autumn
en hiver - in winter
BUT you say AU printemps.
au printemps - in spring
