Gender that does not match your language
CEFR A1 · part 1
edumaterial's parts within the level. The European framework does not subdivide them.
Accents and the cedillaPlacing é, è, ê and ç correctly, and knowing that in French an accent changes the sound…Present tense of -er verbs, with its subjectConjugating the present tense and never dropping the subject pronoun.Negating with ne … pasPlacing both halves of the negation around the verb, and not doubling it.Être and avoir, and telling your ageConjugating être and avoir in the present, and using avoir where French requires it…The plural you cannot hearMarking the plural where it shows —the article and the written -s— even though you…Numbers from 70 to 99Reading and writing the numbers from 70 to 99, which French builds by adding: 70 =…The rule, in three lines
Every French noun is masculine (le, un) or feminine (la, une), and before a vowel both become l'. Gender cannot be worked out from meaning: learn it with the word.
The usual slip. Defaulting to le for everything, because English has no gender to copy from.
Why it catches you out. English has no grammatical gender at all, so you have nothing to transfer — and nothing to warn you. You end up putting le everywhere. Learn the article as part of the word: not voiture but la voiture.