Counting croissants
At the boulangerie you ask for deux croissants and hand over the right coins. Numbers and everyday words are the toolkit for the little transactions that fill a day in French.
Un, deux, trois
- un, deux, trois — one, two, three
- le / la — 'the' (masculine / feminine)
- le chat — the cat · la maison — the house
Nouns have gender
French nouns are masculine ('le') or feminine ('la'). You learn the article along with the word.
Lab · Pick the article
- 'chat' (cat) is masculine — which article?
- 'maison' (house) is feminine — which article?
- Say each noun with its article.
What you should see: le chat (masculine) and la maison (feminine) — the article tells you the gender.