Question

French Question!!!!!!!

I just started learning French so I don't know much but I have a question about when it use "la" and "le". Let's say I was going to say something that was neither masculine nor feminine, and let's use the word apple. Would I say la pomme or le pomme? My lesson at first said the apple was la pomme, but then when I was translating a sentence it said that la pomme was wrong, that it was le pomme. So what's the rule on when to use le and la in a situation like that?

Answer 1

'pomme' is a feminine noun.
This means 'le pomme' is always wrong. But as in English you can say 'the apple' or 'an apple', the expected answer in your question might be 'une pomme', using an indefinite article.

If plural, you can have :
'les pommes'
'des pommes'


'citron' is masculine, so you could have
'le citron'
'un citron'
'les citrons'
'des citrons'

Answer 2

Oh okay. That makes sense. Thank you so much!