The plural you cannot hear
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…Gender that does not match your languageChoosing le or la for nouns whose gender does not match your own language.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…Numbers from 70 to 99Reading and writing the numbers from 70 to 99, which French builds by adding: 70 =…The rule, in three lines
The plural -s is silent. What marks number is the article: le livre / les livres, un chat / des chats. And some plurals take -x: un journal / des journaux, un cheveu / des cheveux, un bateau / des bateaux.
The usual slip. Leaving the word singular because it sounds the same: «les livre». The -s is silent, but without it the sentence is misspelled.
Why it catches you out. English plurals are heard too, and English has no plural article. So you have nothing to hold on to: the French article is the only marker, and you are not used to looking at it.