French Definite Article: How to use 'THE' in French

The definite article, which expresses the English word “the,” indicates a specific person or thing: the family, for example.

For words beginning with a vowel or vowel sound (y and unaspirated h; that is, no puff of air is emitted when pronouncing the word — aspirated h is generally indicated in dictionaries by an * or other symbol), the singular definite articles le and la become l'.

The masculine or feminine gender of the noun, so easily recognizable when le (masculine) or la (feminine) is used, becomes a problem when the noun that follows requires the use of l', which represents either gender noun before a vowel.

All plural nouns require the one plural definite article (les), so you cannot determine the gender of the noun by the article.

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