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Learning French Online – Lesson 4 – The L Apostrophe

When we use le or la and the word starts with a vowel or an h, le and la become l’

Examples:

l’homme
the man

l’oiseau
the bird

l’orange
the orange

l’eau
the water

l’arbre
the tree

l’accident
the accident

un homme (m)
a man

un oiseau (m)
a bird

une orange (f)
an orange

une eau (f)
a water

un arbre (m)
a tree

un accident (m)
an accident/a wreck

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  1. mohammed
    10 years ago

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  2. Dave
    10 years ago

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  3. Saba
    10 years ago

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  4. kavaljit
    10 years ago

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  5. bhagya
    10 years ago

    merci it is helping me lot to improve the French language


  6. magheswari
    10 years ago

    this will actually be the 5 th language i have learned . but i dont get how they thing cup is a femine verb and lemon is a masculine verb. its very difficult to understand. otherwise the teaching and videos awesome. its very helpful for my delf exams and conversation as well as pronouncation . merci beaucoup sir:-)


  7. Brian
    10 years ago

    It helps to be bilingual in the business I am in and I honestly never thought to learn this way but I have been following at least lesson 3 and 4 and have learned a lot already. Maybe this is a good way to learn I’ll have to research the lessons out there because I still need to learn German and Russian. Thank you for turning me on to this I look forward to it.


  8. Kathleen
    10 years ago

    This will actually be the third language I have learned and I have to admit that this way has been one of the most fun ways to do it. You have a great article here or tool which ever you prefer to call it and I think this is going to teach people a lot about French. When will the next lesson be coming out? I can’t wait to get started already.


  9. Bryan
    10 years ago

    I know this is just the basics but it was fun. Is the rest of it harder to catch on to then this? I would love to be fluent one day in French but it may take me awhile to catch on. After three times I finally understand the whole feminine and masculine thing going on with this language. I hope that rest is not that complicated.


  10. Caitlin
    10 years ago

    I never thought I would be able to learn a new language but I actually understand some of this now and when I hear people speaking it I can pick out just a few words. I know if I keep going I am going to get it down and not have any problem understanding people. I love French because it just sounds pretty as well, thank you so much.